NASA counts down to landing of Martian quake-sensor InSight
NASA is counting down to a nail-biting touchdown Monday of the $993 million Mars InSight, the first spacecraft to listen for quakes and study the inner workings of another rocky planet. “The exciting part is we are building on the success of the best team that has ever landed on this planet, which is the NASA team with its contractors and its collaborators.” French seismometer The name InSight is derived from “Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport.” The spacecraft itself stands about waist high, at 3.5 feet, and once its solar arrays are deployed they will span 20 feet. NASA is counting down to a nail-biting touchdown on November 26, 2018, of the $993 million Mars InSight, the first spacecraft to listen for quakes and study the inner workings of another rocky planet. NASA should know within minutes if the landing went well or not, but will have to wait more than five hours for confirmation of the solar array deployment, due to the orbit pattern of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Mars Odyssey which can communicate InSight’s status back to Earth.
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