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NASA announced that it had landed on Mars to explore the interior of the planet. The flight controllers announced that the InSight satellite had landed on Monday, after a dangerous supersonic descent into the red Martian sky. There was no immediate word on whether the undercarriage was in good working order. It is the first spacecraft built to explore the depths of another world, carrying instruments to detect planetary heat and seismic rumblings never measured anywhere else on Earth. After traveling 548 million km during a six-month journey into deep space, the InSight robot lander sits on the dusty, rock-covered surface of Mars. Tim Hoffin, former project manager, said that the success of the landing will not be completely obvious until several hours. "We will certainly have a party when we have managed to land but we will have to temper it a bit while we wait about five and a half hours to know for sure that we are in great shape," he said. InSight will spend 24 months – about a Martian year – using seismic monitoring and underground temperature readings to unravel the mysteries of the Mars Formation and, by extension, the origins of the Earth and other rocky planets of the inner solar system. While Earth's tectonics and other forces have erased most of the early evidence, much of Mars – about a third of its size – would have remained largely static, creating a time machine. geological for scientists. Australian Associated Press
NASA announced that it had landed on Mars to explore the interior of the planet.
The flight controllers announced that the InSight satellite had landed on Monday, after a dangerous supersonic descent into the red Martian sky.
There was no immediate word on whether the undercarriage was in good working order.
It is the first spacecraft built to explore the depths of another world, carrying instruments to detect planetary heat and seismic rumblings never measured anywhere else on Earth.
After traveling 548 million km during a six-month journey into deep space, the InSight robot lander sits on the dusty, rock-covered surface of Mars.
Tim Hoffin, former project manager, said that the success of the landing will not be completely obvious until several hours.
"We will certainly have a party when we have managed to land but we will have to temper it a bit while we wait about five and a half hours to know for sure that we are in great shape," he said.
InSight will spend 24 months – about a Martian year – using seismic monitoring and underground temperature readings to unravel the mysteries of the Mars Formation and, by extension, the origins of the Earth and other rocky planets of the inner solar system.
While Earth's tectonics and other forces have erased most of the early evidence, much of Mars – about a third of its size – would have remained largely static, creating a time machine. geological for scientists.
Australian Associated Press
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