NASA's Mars InSight lander hit the red planet's surface on Monday afternoon.

The robot will scan for Mars quakes, the Martian version of Earthquakes.

It will also give scientists a better idea of what the planet has been up to for the past 4.5 billion years.

Here's a rundown of everything the lander can do.

After seven years of development, NASA just put a solar-powered lander on Mars.

The robot is named InSight, which stands for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport. The 794-pound laboratory hit Martian soil on Monday, after nearly seven months of whizzing through space.

On Mars, InSight will pursue three main goals: taking the planet's temperature, measuring its size, and monitoring for Mars quakes. Scientists at NASA say this work is kind of like giving the red planet a "checkup."

Here's what the roughly $828 million mission could accomplish.