TAMPA: NASA is counting down to a nail-biting touchdown on Monday of the $993 million Mars InSight, the first spacecraft to listen for quakes and study the inner workings of another rocky planet.

No one is on board the spacecraft, which launched nearly seven months ago and has traveled some 300 million miles (482 million kilometers).

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