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Pasadena (United States), November 26. The InSight Space Module, NASA's first mission to specifically study the interior of Mars, has successfully landed today on the surface of the red planet.
The NASA Propulsion Laboratory Control Room in Pasadena, California, USA, received a signal today at 11:53 local time (19:53 GMT) that InSight signaled that was lying on Mars.
"I feel you, Mars, and soon I'll know your heart, with this landing safe I'm here, I'm at home," he said in his official Twitter profile, the InSight module. , which has been broadcast live and via this social network, his journey from Earth since last May.
NASA scientists and technicians in the Pasadena control room reacted with great joy, applause and collective embrace to the expected news that InSight had completed its journey into space.
In addition, NASA received the first photograph sent since March by InSight at 11:58 local time in Pasadena (19:58 GMT).
InSight culminated today with a landing of 485 million kilometers, separating the Earth from Mars, which began May 5 when it took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, United States.
Unlike other NASA missions focused on the surface or atmosphere of Mars, the novelty of InSight lies in the fact that its main purpose is to study the interior of the planet to learn more about its composition and its evolution.
For this, InSight has, among other instruments, a seismograph and a probe that will measure respectively the internal activity and the temperature of the planet.
In this aspect, the work of a mechanical excavator, included in the module, will drill up to about five meters deep on the Martian surface.
InSight settled and settled today in a flat area of Mars, known as Elysium Planitia, where it will conduct its research activity.
To successfully land, InSight had to overcome NASA's calls "seven minutes of terror", the delicate and brief phase of its mission during which the module went from crossing the Martian atmosphere to near 20,000 kilometers to the hour to reduce Its speed is about five kilometers just before being hammered.
InSight is expected to remain operational on Mars for about two years. EFE
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