The NASA March InSight lander just days from the arrival on Red Planet

The NASA Mars InSight Lander approaches the Red Planet after a 7 month trip on 295 million miles across the solar system to reach one of Earth's closest neighbors.

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The satellite, which was launched May 5, will have traveled more than 300 million kilometers by the time it arrives on Mars on Monday, November 26, and will attempt to gently land a lander on the surface of the planet, during the first Mars landing over six years, according to NASA.

If all goes as planned, the InSight lander should land on the Martian surface just before 3pm. EST Monday.

The InSight mission, worth $ 850 million, will study inside the depths of Mars and help scientists understand the formation and early evolution of not only the planet Mars, but also all rocky planets, including the Earth. release on the mission.

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Only 40 percent of missions sent to Mars have landed successfully on the planet and the United States is the only country to land a craft on the surface, said NASA officials. "Since 1965, he (the United States) has flown over, orbited, landed and evolved on the surface of the red planet."

"Even though we have already done so, landing on Mars is difficult and this mission is no different," said Rob Manning, chief engineer of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in a statement. recent video.

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"It takes thousands of steps to go from the top of the atmosphere to the surface, and each of them must work perfectly to be a successful mission," Manning said.

In 2008, JPL, based in Pasadena, California, landed on the Phoenix satellite near the North Martian Pole. She used the same technology and the same concept of landing on InSight.

"After a cruising stage, an aeroshell descends into the atmosphere. The parachute and the retroreporters slow down the spacecraft and the suspended legs absorb the shocks caused by the touchdown, "said JPL officials, explaining the operation of the landing.

Instead of the North Pole, however, InSight must land at Elysium Planitia, what scientists call "the largest parking on Mars," a flat, stable surface, usually free of rocks and rocks, and also perfect on the planet.