Well they did it!! InSight has landed on Mars..... This 'feat' is no small thing... It takes years of planning, programming, testing, retesting, fixing, time, money, blood, sweat and tears of thousands of people working to help expand our knowledge about Mars!~
NASA has had a great track record of late with hardware getting to the surface of Mars and actually working... These missions ride atop a rocketed, rattling them so much their teeth could fall out!
Then traveling through the radiation of space, then this crazy descent, that has proven well for NASA before... But will it work this time? That's the question! They'd have been asking themselves.... Once on the ground, will the missions instruments work? Now we have to wait 5 hours before a signal tells them that the solar panels have opened... Landing was a major hurdle, but now comes the question of 'Will it all work'?
Stay tuned!
NASA has had a great track record of late with hardware getting to the surface of Mars and actually working... These missions ride atop a rocketed, rattling them so much their teeth could fall out!
Then traveling through the radiation of space, then this crazy descent, that has proven well for NASA before... But will it work this time? That's the question! They'd have been asking themselves.... Once on the ground, will the missions instruments work? Now we have to wait 5 hours before a signal tells them that the solar panels have opened... Landing was a major hurdle, but now comes the question of 'Will it all work'?
Stay tuned!
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