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A planetary stethoscope will soon be on its way to listen to Mars’s heartbeat. On 5 May, NASA plans to launch its US$994-million InSight spacecraft from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The mission’s main job will be to place a seismometer on the Martian surface and listen to seismic waves pinging around the planet’s interior.