NASA is launching a quake-hunting lander to Mars today — here’s how to watch the InSight blast off live

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• NASA’s Mars InSight lander is set to take off from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base on Saturday.
• The InSight will take six months to reach Mars, where it will drill into the red planet and measure marsquakes.
• This will be the first time NASA launches an interplanetary rocket from the West Coast.
• Watch it blast off live Saturday (weather permitting) at 4:05 a.m. PT (or 7:05 ET) below.

Some Californians are about to witness to a rare treat on Saturday morning: NASA’s first interplanetary rocket launch from the West Coast.

If all goes according to plan, people located about 150 miles north of Los Angeles will be able to venture out before dawn to see NASA’s Mars InSight lander blast off from Vandenberg Air Force Base on an Atlas V rocket.

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