NASA Insight probe will land on Mars, 2pm eastern 11/26
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https://mars.nasa.gov//imgs/insight/InSight_instrument_callouts.jpg
Watch NASA's InSight land on Mars tomorrow starting at 2PM ET
In addition to the standard avenues, you can watch a commentary-free JPL feed, a Twitch stream and even 360-degree video on avenues like YouTube (same link as the JPL feed) and Facebook.
If all goes according to plan, a lot will happen in a short space of time -- some procedures are scheduled to take place just seconds apart. InSight should technically land and 2:54PM, but it won't send a confirmation back until around 3:01PM. Just how quickly you get details will depend on two cubesats (Mars Cube One) making a flyby and relaying InSight's data. You'll definitely have to be patient beyond that, though. You won't know if InSight's solar panels have deployed until 8:35PM at the earliest, and the first picture might take up to a day to arrive.
https://www.twitch.tv/nasa
the main point of this probe is to gather information about the crust, mantle, and core of mars by drilling 16 feet down into the dirt and to measure for earthquakes with the first seismograph ever on mars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InSight
Extremely nervous for this. Going to be nailbiting.
Watching Curiosity land on Mars live was amazing so hopefully I can wake up in time to watch this.
This is a mission even the gop can get behind, fracking another planet.
https://i.imgur.com/HOdDDui.png
hey now they could land and put the drill down and suddenly we have a Tutsville style blowout.
that'd be one for the history books.
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Briefing coming to a close, live coverage of the landing to begin in ~10 minutes.
It's about to happen everyone. NERVOUSNESS INCREASING.
There's someone eating chips on the stream and it sound gross lol.
About 7 minutes till entry
Entry. We comin' in hot, boys.
it did it
TOUCHDOWN CONFIRMED
It's always nice seeing the NASA crew get excited & emotional over a successful mission like this <3
I wonder if there will be landing footage similar to curiosity.
Pictures coming soon
That picture is absolutely beautiful. I got tears in my eyes. Congrats NASA, JPL, Lockheed, ULA, and everyone else involved. What an accomplishment for humanity.
Damnit. Just tuned in as they applauded. Oh well, congrats NASA
Took me awhile to realize it was looking at the horizon and not down onto the ground..
Phew, now just 3 months until it's fully deployed.
I'm still blown away about the two CubeSats that accompained it and acting as relays for it. It'll be the first time Cubesats have gone interplanetary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awddh1mcXOo
New photos coming in:
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/107263/4c5fe3b9-73b0-4e86-8f80-e4640e7629ca/image.png
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