More than 2.4 million book ticket for Mars

One lakh Indians book ticket for Mars

• They have 'booked' a flight to the Red Planet via Nasa's InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) mission slated for launch on May 5, 2018.
• Nasa states that those who submitted their names were provided online 'boarding passes' for the mission.
• The total number of names received by Nasa from all over the world is 2,429,807.

 

A total number of 2,429,807 people have booked a flight to Mars as they signed up to have their names etched on a microchip that will be carried on NASA's upcoming InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) mission, which launches in May, 2018.

Those who submitted their names were provided online 'boarding passes' for the mission by NASA.

InSight will be the first mission to interiors of the Martian surface by listening for marsquakes. These quakes travel through geologic material at different speeds and give scientists a glimpse of the composition and structure of the planet's inside.