Mars Mission Makes Clean Landing

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🗓️ 26 November 2018

⏱️ 3 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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0:00.0	This is Scientific Americans 60 Second Science. I'm Steve Mursky.
0:06.0	Inside has passed through peak deceleration.
0:10.0	Telemetry shows the spacecraft saw about 8 geez.
0:13.0	Marco Alpha and Marco Bravo.
0:15.0	Radio Science Reports carrier detected.
0:18.0	Inside is now traveling at a velocity of 2,000 meters per second.
0:26.0	The control room of the NASA Insight Mars Mission earlier today
0:30.0	as the spacecraft landed on the planet after a voyage of six months and 300 million miles.
0:36.0	It will be sending a probe some five meters below the Martian surface
0:40.0	to measure heat flow and listen for tremors.
0:43.0	Most of the talking is by Christine Zalai of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
0:49.0	Inside is now traveling at 1,000 meters per second.
0:52.0	Once in sight flows to about 400 meters per second, it will deploy its 12 meter diameter
0:58.6	supersonic parachute.
1:00.4	The parachute will deploy nominally at about Mach 1.7.
1:04.0	31 seconds pass.
1:07.0	Grant stations are observing signals consistent with parachute deploy. Boy. Telemetry shows parachute deployment, radar powered on.
1:18.0	on. Each year of separation commanded.
1:25.0	22 seconds pass.
1:28.0	We have radar activation where the radar is beginning to search for the ground.
1:32.0	Once the radar locks on the search for the ground.
1:32.6	Once the radar locks on the ground
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