https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3yxm4/nasas-launching-a-lander-that-will-dig-on-mars

On Saturday, NASA plans to launch a robot designed to peek into the mysterious interior of Mars from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base. Named InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport), the lander is scheduled for liftoff at 4:05 AM local time. If all goes to plan, it will become the first interplanetary mission in history to lift off from the West Coast.

But that’s not the only thing that distinguishes InSight from the diverse population of orbiters, landers, and rovers that already populates the red planet. Provided it completes its six-month voyage to Mars, and successfully touches down at its target site in the equatorial Elysium Planitia region, this lander will also make history by digging a full five meters (16 feet) into the Martian terrain, exponentially deeper than any previous Mars mission.