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The plan is to drive or hammer a probe from 9 to 15 feet into the soil, hopefully not solid rock, and then to discover how terrestrial planets are formed. All very scientific, using seismology and thermodynamics to explore the interior. No mention of explosives or recording the vibrations from such a blast.
What if the authors of The Larousse Guide to Astronomy (1978) are correct in saying that "the Hellas region displays a diameter of 2000 km, testimony to a meteoroid between 100-200 km in diameter puncturing the crust more than 3.5 billion years ago."? As we know now, if something that big punctured the crust of Mars, there would have been one hellish explosion of almost unimaginable proportions when it hit the molten core.
So my Question Everything is: "Will Mars Insight really be studying how a terrestrial planet is formed, or how one is destroyed from the inside out?"
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