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Birthday Girl Cheryl Burke Is Ready for a ''Fresh Start'' as She Reflects on Tough Year

Cheryl Burke is reflecting on the past year of her life. The dancer turns 34-years-old today and while it may not be a typical milestone birthday, she told her Instagram followers it feels like a real turning point in my life.

A lot happened during 33, both good and bad—I got to share my passion with #LOTF and came back to #DWTS, I lost my father and came to terms with a lot of things that happened in my past, the Dancing With The Stars pro explained.

And while Burke has had a year of ups and downs, the star says she is grateful for my family, boyfriend, friends and team who have supported me and believed in me every step of the way.

She went on to say that it was because of the support she has received that she is ready now, though, for a new year and a fresh start.

I have new goals at 34. Im realizing that, physically, dance wont last forever (that doesnt mean Im done yet!). I need to step out of my comfort zone and be open to new opportunities, the dancer said.

The former Dance Moms coach, who is currently dating actor Matthew Lawrence, added that she hopes to start a family soon. Cheryl Burke, Stephen Louis BurkeInstagram.

She wrote, I want to surround myself with good people and eliminate negativity from my life. I want to push myself to be the best version of me that I can be..

I may be another year older, but Im just getting started, the star concluded. In March, the 34-year-old lost her father, which prompted a brief break from social media while she was dealing with some personal things.

Thanks for understanding and remember to tell the people who are important to you just how much you love them each and everyday, Burke wrote at the time.

For more infomation >> Birthday Girl Cheryl Burke Is Ready for a ''Fresh Start'' as She Reflects on Tough Year - Duration: 1:41.

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WHAT IS NASA'S MARS INSIGHT MISSION? - Duration: 4:49.

insight isn't just a Mars mission it's really a mission to the terrestrial

planet interiors so Mars is kind of the Goldilocks planets it's not too big it's

not too small it's just right if it was too big it would have retained a lot of

activity and erased all the the evidence that we're looking for if it was too

small it never would have undergone the same processes that form the earth and

so it's really just right Mars will give us this insight into early planet

formation and early planetary processes understanding the the details of the

structure of the interior of Mars will allow us to address questions of

planetary formation that we've only had been able to guess at before we are

missing cold hard data and this is what this mission will provide the insight

mission is a geophysical mission to Mars it's going to go to Mars and take its

vital signs it's kind of take its heartbeat the seismic activity of the

planet so we're gonna be doing that using a seismometer a very high

precision seismometer using techniques that have been well developed on earth

to get the understanding of the crust mantle and core and sort of the

relationship between those gonna take its temperature by measuring the thermal

gradient of the surface which tells how much heat is coming out and we also have

a heat flow probe we call it HP cubed and what that does is gonna basically

take the temperature of Mars and from that it will be able to understand what

the thermal flux is over the course of a full Martian year and it's going to sort

of measure its reflexes by looking at how the rotation wobbles with the tiles

effects of the Sun our final experiment is called rise and that's going to be

looking at the basically the wobble of Mars to help understand what the core

size may be in composition the Lockheed Martin flight system our role is to

build the aeroshell the crew stage and the lander all three of those have

extremely high heritage from Phoenix 50 meters standing back for touchdown

it's an advantage for us to use heritage designs because we're familiar with them

we've tested them we've qualified them they worked successfully on the surface

of Mars we have a really big head start a lot of things have come together and

make it possible to learn you know a great deal about the interior Mars from

a seismometer so we have Knesset that's building our seismometer that's been

under development for many many years what it does is it just sits on the

surface of Mars and it's like a stethoscope it listens to what's going

on inside Mars on the HP cubed instrument we've have that being

delivered to us from DLR that also has been under development for many years

and what this probe does is it penetrates into the subsurface up to

five meters on its way it measures the thermal conductivity a basic mantra of

our of our flight system design is low-risk and with that as low cost risk

we've been to Mars before with the JPL Lockheed Martin team we've been to the

surface of Mars before successfully with Phoenix we know how to operate the arm

the surface operations are much much simpler than Phoenix and we're putting

two instruments on the surface and then we're leaving them there was no ground

in the loop interaction repetitive weekly uplink downlink sessions were

just made to do this mission the heritage for insight extends way past

just the flight system and the hardware it extends to the personnel the

processes the tools that we've developed and so forth with one spacecraft with on

a discovery budget we're really going to be able to do the science that for the

last 20 years we thought would cost at least a billion to a billion and a half

dollars and require three or four spacecraft we have very robust margins

built into inside 50% margin on our instrument deployment

timeline we have 50% margin on our science data collection there's 500

percent margin on our daily data volume we're we're in good shape well I think

this missions going to generate a lot of excitement we're already connecting to

the public through Twitter Facebook and on the web we're going to be working

with educators to put Mars quake data in the hands of the kids to actually work

with it as part of their earth science curriculum and get an angle on planetary

science at the same time we've got the right expertise and knowledge to run

this mission we're going to be ready for launch in 2016

within six months we'll be landing on the planet and immediately bring you

back our science it's going to be a great mission