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Mars Mission Makes Clean Landing

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Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2018

⏱️ 4 minutes

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The sounds of the Mars InSight Mission control room during the tense minutes leading to the landing on the surface. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.1

Insight has passed through peak deceleration.

0:42.4

Telemetry shows the spacecraft saw about 8G.

0:45.2

Marco Alpha and Marco Bravo.

0:46.8

Radio science reports carrier detected.

0:54.0

Inside is now traveling at a velocity of 2,000 meters per second.

0:58.4

The control room of the NASA Insight Mars mission earlier today,

1:02.7

as the spacecraft landed on the planet after a voyage of six months and 300 million miles.

1:08.8

It will be sending a probe some five meters below the Martian surface to measure heat flow

1:13.7

and listen for tremors.

1:15.4

Most of the talking is by Christine Zelai of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

1:21.0

Insight is now traveling at 1,000 meters per second.

1:24.5

Very close.

1:25.3

Once insight slows to about 400 meters per second, it will deploy its 12-meter diameter supersonic per second. Once insight slows to about 400 meters per second, it will deploy its 12-meter

1:30.0

diameter supersonic parachute. The parachute will deploy nominally at about Mach 1.7.

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