Insight's mission is to:
to place a stationary lander equipped with a seismometer called SEIS produced by the French space agency CNES, and measure heat transfer with a heat probe called HP3 produced by the German space agency DLR to study the planet's early geological evolution....
InSight's primary objective is to study the earliest evolutionary history of the processes that shaped Mars. ...
InSight mission's goal is to improve the understanding of this process and, by extension, terrestrial evolution, by measuring the planetary building blocks shaped by this differentiation: a terrestrial planet's core, mantle and crust... ( source: Wikipedia )
This is a science mission, of course. It doesn't seem to pave the way for colonization. That may depend upon others, as NASA doesn't seem interested in that.
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