Preparing to land on Mars.

[Itoero]

On 26 November, NASA’s InSight mission will attempt to touch down near the Martian equator. If it arrives safely, it will embark on the first mission dedicated to listening for seismic energy rippling through the red planet.

Any ‘marsquakes’ it detects could yield clues to the planet’s mysterious interior, including how it is separated into a core, mantle and crust. Whatever scientists learn about Mars’s innards could help illuminate how our own planet evolved billions of years ago.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07482-y

[Outrider]

Another successful landing. Go NASA!

 

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8392/nasa-insight-lander-arrives-on-martian-surface/?site=insight

 

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Mars has just received its newest robotic resident. NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander successfully touched down on the Red Planet after an almost seven-month, 300-million-mile (458-million-kilometer) journey from Earth.

 

[iNow]

2 hours ago, Outrider said:

Another successful landing. Go NASA!

I watched live . Cool to see them celebrating each milestone during decent. 

[beecee]

Bloody fantastic!!! 

Great follow up on the  previous Spirit, Opportunity, Phoenix, Curiosity and Viking landers! Indeed, go NASA!

[SamIam]

Take that one big oil. Nuclear power all the way to Mars!