Landing:
Nov. 26, 2018
(~12:00 p.m. PDT/3:00 p.m. EDT / 8pm GMT)
InSight is a robotic lander designed to study the interior of the planet Mars. The mission launched on 5 May 2018 at 11:05 UTC and is expected to land on the surface of Mars at Elysium Planitia on 26 November 2018, where it will deploy a seismometer and burrow a heat probe.
'Seven minutes of terror' as Nasa's Insight probe descends to Mars
https://www.theguardian.com/science...error-as-nasas-insight-probe-descends-to-marsThe InSight lander is expected to touch down at about 8pm GMT on Monday, and multiple critical steps will need to work perfectly. The spacecraft will hurtle into the thin Martian atmosphere at 13,200mph, deploy a parachute and fire 12 retro-thrusters to cushion its landing. Nasa calls the entry, descent and landing phase of its Mars missions the "seven minutes of terror". Confirmation of the landing will be beamed back to Earth via two experimental cube satellites that have trailed the probe to its destination.
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