Mars Lander of NASA is going to be two years full – 2oceansvibe.com

On Monday, people from around the world watched the live broadcast of the InSight Mars landings.

Lander survives what scientists call "seven minutes of terror" as he touched the red planet.

The same scientists then celebrated with some of the most delicate social interactions never recorded on live TV.

I'll give it to them, they just put something on Mars.

Now that the LG is safe on the ground, here is CNN with the following:

Unlike rovers already on the Martian surface, InSight will remain in place during its planned two-year mission.

InSight has already been busy. Since landing, he has taken two photos and returned them as postcards on Earth, showing his new home. These initial images are grainy because the dust screens have not been removed from the camera lenses yet.

The InSights solar panels have deployed, which will give the device – about the size of a 60s convertible – with energy during his residency.

"We operate on solar power, making it difficult to get the modules up and running," said Tom Hoffman, InSight Project Manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

"With the berries providing energy, we need to launch cool science operations. We are on the right track to study for the first time what is happening inside Mars. "

On clear days, the panels will provide InSight between 600 and 700 watts, which is about enough to power a standard kitchen blender. In more dusty conditions, panels will still generate between 200 and 300 watts.

The series of geophysical instruments will measure the internal activity of Mars, such as seismology, and the jitter when the sun and its moons move on the planet.

These instruments include the seismic experiment for interior structures to determine the cause of seismic waves on Mars, the set of heat fluxes and physical properties that burrows beneath the surface, and the determination of outgoing heat. of the planet, study the core of the planet.

InSight will be able to measure the earthquakes that occur anywhere on the planet. And he is able to hammer a probe into the surface.

The data returned by InSight will help determine the temperature of Mars and the geological activity beneath its crust, if it still has a hot melt core and what makes Earth so special in comparison.

The first data are not expected until March.

We will keep you posted.

[source:cnn]