on 26-11-2018 16:37
Hey everyone,
The latest Mars probe is due to touch down on the red planet later today! InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport is designed to study the interior of Mars which will help with our understanding on how the planet was formed. The lander will also study tectonic activity and meteorite impacts that are currently happening on Mars!
You can read up on the details over on NASA's website which has tons of information about the lander and it's mission.
You can also watch a live stream of the landing from Mission Control which I've embedded below in case you wanted to watch.
Let us know if you're planning to watch the landing live and what your overall thoughts on the mission are!
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on 26-11-2018 16:39
on 26-11-2018 16:39
Awesome. Hope the coverage is better than that Sean Penn TV show (The First)
on 26-11-2018 16:43
on 26-11-2018 16:43
Should be @welshsteve76 I'm interested to see if they actually have a feed from the probe or just show Mission Control.
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on 26-11-2018 16:44
on 26-11-2018 16:44
on 26-11-2018 16:56
on 26-11-2018 16:56
A feed from the lander would be awesome, but I doubt we'll see that 😞
on 26-11-2018 17:02
on 26-11-2018 17:02
Apparently it's supposed to take a landscape photo when it touches down which takes 30 minutes to reach mission control so around 8pm we/they should see the photo. We are told that less than 50% of landings are successful. Fingers crossed then.....
26-11-2018 17:14 - edited 26-11-2018 17:15
26-11-2018 17:14 - edited 26-11-2018 17:15
So what are we going to see then.. lots of minions crunching numbers waiting for a space selfie?
That sounds less watchable than I first imagined
on 26-11-2018 17:20
on 26-11-2018 17:20
We will see O2 hastily erecting a 4G Mast I should think....
on 26-11-2018 17:24
on 26-11-2018 17:24
on 26-11-2018 18:27
on 26-11-2018 18:27
I'll just watch this thread. This will tell me all I need to know....
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