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But the landing on Mars, in a process supposed to last six and a half minutes, will be more difficult than we think. NASA has therefore tested many experiments to make sure they enter, descend and land on Mars safely.
National Geographic has identified 3 difficulties that the Insight work needs to overcome to avoid failure.
Mars is a spaceship killer
Mars has killed several spaceships in the past. His latest victim was the European probe Chiaparelli, whose engineers did not understand how much he could descend when descending through the canopy, causing his fall to fail.
Of course, Insight will benefit from these unsuccessful experiments, including the crash of a NASA spacecraft in Antarctica in 1999, as similar units of measurement were not used in all its calculations.
The arrival of Insight at the landing site safely means that the team is working very cautiously on Monday.
Like the Phoenix, Insight will deploy its umbrella as soon as it reaches the thin Martian atmosphere, but the team needs to know how far it will come down during the landing so as not to be as European than the Chiaparelli probe.
Search tracks
Insight will follow a ballistic trajectory on the planet, which means there is no possibility of maneuver once it enters the atmosphere.
This ballistic runway is designed to place the spacecraft under the gentle plains in an area called Elysium Planitia, which must be the specifically chosen flat landing site.
Most of this area is free of any terrain, which will not disrupt the deployment of vehicles, thanks to a range of sensitive tools designed to monitor the interior of the planet.
"We literally want a parking lot, but if there are rocks or slopes, the deployment team will have another job," said Tom Hoffman, Insight project manager.
Path information
Before landing, the responsible scientists also perform many experiments and tests in virtual environments.
In the simulation, the entry, landing and landing teams take into account any changes they may make to the spacecraft's advanced programming.
Insight fed the updated trajectory information into the simulations and introduced a set of variables into the spacecraft systems to study the results in order to obtain the highest probability of success.
"The continuous update of track information means that you are on the new road," said Julie Wertz-Chen, Insight member.
She explained that she was "very confident" that the landing would go well: "There are a lot of things that have to go well to do this job."
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But the landing on Mars, in a process supposed to last six and a half minutes, will be more difficult than we think. NASA has therefore tested many experiments to make sure they enter, descend and land on Mars safely.
National Geographic has identified 3 difficulties that the Insight work needs to overcome to avoid failure.
Mars is a spaceship killer
Mars has killed several spaceships in the past. His latest victim was the European probe Chiaparelli, whose engineers did not understand how much he could descend when descending through the canopy, causing his fall to fail.
Of course, Insight will benefit from these unsuccessful experiments, including the crash of a NASA spacecraft in Antarctica in 1999, as similar units of measurement were not used in all its calculations.
The arrival of Insight at the landing site safely means that the team is working very cautiously on Monday.
Like the Phoenix, Insight will deploy its umbrella as soon as it reaches the thin Martian atmosphere, but the team needs to know how far it will come down during the landing so as not to be as European than the Chiaparelli probe.
Search tracks
Insight will follow a ballistic trajectory on the planet, which means there is no possibility of maneuver once it enters the atmosphere.
This ballistic runway is designed to place the spacecraft under the gentle plains in an area called Elysium Planitia, which must be the specifically chosen flat landing site.
Most of this area is free of any terrain, which will not disrupt the deployment of vehicles, thanks to a range of sensitive tools designed to monitor the interior of the planet.
"We literally want a parking lot, but if there are rocks or slopes, the deployment team will have another job," said Tom Hoffman, Insight project manager.
Path information
Before landing, the responsible scientists also perform many experiments and tests in virtual environments.
In the simulation, the entry, landing and landing teams take into account any changes they may make to the spacecraft's advanced programming.
Insight fed the updated trajectory information into the simulations and introduced a set of variables into the spacecraft systems to study the results in order to obtain the highest probability of success.
"The continuous update of track information means that you are on the new road," said Julie Wertz-Chen, Insight member.
She explained that she was "very confident" that the landing would go well: "There are a lot of things that have to go well to do this job."
