NASA has begun the final preparations for its next - and most ambitious - rover landing on Mars. The InSight probe blasted off on May 5th, and, NASA hopes, will touch down on the Martian surface on November 26thThe craft will first have to navigate a 13,000mph descent through the atmosphere perfectly. Once it lands, a remote drilling unit, dubbed 'the mole' will burrow nearly 16 feet (five metres) into the Martian soil in a groundbreaking study that could reveal how the red planet - and Earth - formed. A quake-measuring seismometer, meanwhile, will be removed from the lander by a mechanical arm and placed directly on the surface for better vibration monitoring.

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