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NASA’s InSight lander has been hurtling through the solar system for over seven months. Now its time has come.
InSight is set to land on Mars.
InSight — sent to observe Martian earthquakes and study the planet’s ancient interior — is expected to land in a flat, barren plain on Mars on Monday at around 3 p.m. ET.
Plummeting down to Mars is always perilous, so NASA mission controllers — and InSight’s adoring public — will anxiously await the landing results back on Earth.
An artist’s conception of the Mars’ InSight lander.
Image: nasa
NASA’s choice of landing site, called Elysium Planitia, will give the stationary lander a flat place to deploy its seismometers and drill into the frozen ground. Read more…
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