Directed by Mark Elijah Rosenberg. ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, 2016. The InSight mission (for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) is scheduled to launch in March 2016 and land on Mars six months later.

NASA / … With Mark Strong, Luke Wilson, Sanaa Lathan, Anders Danielsen Lie. Europe's next mission to Mars has entered the final construction phase, passing a key milestone on its way toward a planned 2016 launch. Launched in 2016, ExoMars is the first in a series of joint Mars missions through a partnership between the … A U.S. astronaut prepares for a mission to Mars. The much anticipated 2016 launch of the Mars InSight mission to explore the deep rocky terrain of Red Planet has been put on hold, NASA announced on Tuesday. See how the 2016 ExoMars orbiter will work here.