Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2018 4:13 pm Post subject: NASA InSight Lander Arrives on Martian Surface
Amazing. I watched it live.
Quote:
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.
InSight's two-year mission will be to study the deep interior of Mars to learn how all celestial bodies with rocky surfaces, including Earth and the Moon, formed.
InSight launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California May 5. The lander touched down Monday, Nov. 26, near Mars' equator on the western side of a flat, smooth expanse of lava called Elysium Planitia, at 11:52:59 a.m. PST (2:52:59 p.m. EST).
they used cubesats for com links for the first time around another planet...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat
"For the first time, a pair of interplanetary cubesats nicknamed "WALL-E" and "Eva" will relay signals from the landing in near-real time."
Is there any update of the video? like actual footage on mars?
not sure...from a CNN article
What happens next
InSight's two-year science mission won't begin right away. It will take two to three months for the robotic arm to place the mission's instruments on the surface. Meanwhile, mission scientists will photograph what can be seen from the lander's perspective and monitor the environment. Science data isn't expected until March.
they used cubesats for com links for the first time around another planet...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat
"For the first time, a pair of interplanetary cubesats nicknamed "WALL-E" and "Eva" will relay signals from the landing in near-real time."
they used cubesats for com links for the first time around another planet...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat
"For the first time, a pair of interplanetary cubesats nicknamed "WALL-E" and "Eva" will relay signals from the landing in near-real time."
they used cubesats for com links for the first time around another planet...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat
"For the first time, a pair of interplanetary cubesats nicknamed "WALL-E" and "Eva" will relay signals from the landing in near-real time."
they used cubesats for com links for the first time around another planet...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat
"For the first time, a pair of interplanetary cubesats nicknamed "WALL-E" and "Eva" will relay signals from the landing in near-real time."
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Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2018 7:29 pm Post subject:
It's pretty crazy that scientists can accomplish a feat like landing a spacecraft on an object relatively small compared to the vastness of our solar system and that is 40 million miles away, and yet they can be so far off base with this whole "Climate Change" nonsense . . .
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He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
goes up in flames
In 24 frames
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