1 Month to Mars! NASA's InSight Lander Nearing Red Planet Touchdown

1 Month to Mars! NASA's InSight Lander Nearing Red Planet Touchdown

1 Month to Mars! NASA's InSight Lander Nearing Red Planet Touchdown







A month from today, Mars will welcome a new robotic resident who seeks to probe the bowels of the planet.



	

	NASA's InSight landing is scheduled to land just north of the Martian equator on the afternoon of November 26, which will end a space voyage of nearly seven months. InSight released, along with the two small cubicles of Mars Cube One (MarCO), on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on May 5. 

		The incoming, descending and landing sequence of InSight will be distressing, as are all attempts to land the Red Planet.

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Artistic illustration of the NASA InSight landing working on the Martian surface.

            						    Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech 


		The solar-powered spacecraft will launch into the Martian atmosphere at 14,100 mph (22,700 km / h) and then deploy a large parachute to slow its descent. As the lander approaches the surface, it will leave its back shell and launch itself in a parachute, landing softly with the help of 12 descent engines, approximately 6 minutes after having first tried the Mars air.

		That landing will occur on a high altitude equatorial plain called Elysium Planitia, just 600 kilometers (600 miles) from Gale Crater, where NASA's vehicle, the automobile-sized Curiosity, landed in August 2012.

		Elysium Planitia is "as flat and boring as any on Mars", NASA officials wrote in a statement Wednesday (October 24). And that's why the InSight team decided to land there, for security reasons. 

		At Elysium, "there are fewer collisions, fewer rocks to land and lots of sunlight to power the ship," NASA officials added. "The fact that InSight does not use a lot of energy and must have a lot of sunlight on the equator of Mars means it can provide a lot of data for scientists to study."

		InSight will not investigate the characteristics of the surface, so the "boring" part has no problem. The lander carries a heat probe and a set of superprecise seismometers; The observations of both instruments should reveal a lot about the Internal structure and composition of Red Planet., missionary team members have said.

		In addition, InSight (whose name is short for "Inner exploration using seismic investigations, geodesy and heat transport") will conduct a radio-science experiment using its communications equipment. This work will track the small oscillations of the rotation axis of Mars, revealing details about the size and composition of the planet's core.

		The various data collected for the $ 850 million. Mission inSight More than two Earth years of operation should help scientists better understand how rocky planets form and evolve, NASA officials said.





						


NASA's InSight landing will land on November 26, 2018 at Elysium Planitia, just north of the equator on Mars.

            						    Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech 


		And about the MarCO twins: Those spaceships the size of a briefcase embark on a demonstration mission, which aims to show that cubosats can explore deep space. Things are going well so far. One of the twins recently. Send home a photo of Mars. - The first image of the Red Planet never captured by a cube.

		The MarCO ship will also attempt to transmit origin data to Earth from InSight during the landing landing attempt on November 26. But this is not a crucial responsibility for the duo; Other NASA spacecraft, such as the venerable Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, will also do this relief work.



	Mike Wall's book on the search for extraterrestrial life. "Out there, "will be published on November 13 by Grand Central Publishing. Follow it on Twitter @michaeldwall. Follow us @Spacedotcom or Facebook. Originally published in Space.com.

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