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When NASA’s InSight descends to the Red Planet on Nov. 26, 2018, it is guaranteed to be a white-knuckle event. Rob Manning, chief engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, explains the critical steps that must happen in perfect sequence to get the robotic lander safely to the surface.
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When NASA’s InSight descends to the Red Planet on Nov. 26, 2018, it is guaranteed to be a white-knuckle event. Rob Manning, chief engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, explains the critical steps that must happen in perfect sequence to get the robotic lander safely to the surface.
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View minute by minute details and events here.
NASA’s Mars Exploration Program
InSight Landing on Mars
Rob Manning explains the critical steps that must happen in perfect sequence for InSight to land safely on the surface of Mars.
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Anxiety abounds at NASA as Mars landing day arrives
A NASA spacecraft's six-month journey to Mars neared its dramatic grand finale Monday in what scientists and engineers hoped would be a soft precision landing on flat red plains.
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Anxiety abounds at NASA as Mars landing day arrives
A NASA spacecraft's six-month journey to Mars neared its dramatic grand finale Monday in what scientists and engineers hoped would be a soft precision landing on flat red plains.
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Anxiety abounds at NASA as Mars landing day arrives
A NASA spacecraft's six-month journey to Mars neared its dramatic grand finale Monday in what scientists and engineers hoped would be a soft precision landing on flat red plains.
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PASADENA, Calif. — NASA's newest Mars robot has already captured a photo of its rusty, dusty home.
The Insight Lander touched down on the Red Planet yesterday (Nov. 26) just before 3 p.m. EST (2000 GMT) and beamed home its first image from the surface mere minutes later.
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PASADENA, Calif. — NASA's newest Mars robot has already captured a photo of its rusty, dusty home.
The Insight Lander touched down on the Red Planet yesterday (Nov. 26) just before 3 p.m. EST (2000 GMT) and beamed home its first image from the surface mere minutes later.
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Space.com
Behold! Here's the 1st Photo from Mars from NASA's InSight Lander.
NASA's InSight lander touched down on the Red Planet today (Nov. 26) just before 3 p.m. EST (2000 GMT) and beamed home its first image from the surface mere minutes later.
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First NASA's Viking 1 lander made it down to the surface, followed a couple of weeks later by Viking 2 on August 7th. In the meantime the Viking 1 and 2 orbiters set up shop high above the planet.
Both landers were equipped with what were, at the time, pretty special cameras. These used a mirror to 'scan' a vertical slice of the terrain, digitizing the light with a photodetector. By rotating the mirror slightly and taking another vertical scan an image was slowly built up and transmitted back to Earth.
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First NASA's Viking 1 lander made it down to the surface, followed a couple of weeks later by Viking 2 on August 7th. In the meantime the Viking 1 and 2 orbiters set up shop high above the planet.
Both landers were equipped with what were, at the time, pretty special cameras. These used a mirror to 'scan' a vertical slice of the terrain, digitizing the light with a photodetector. By rotating the mirror slightly and taking another vertical scan an image was slowly built up and transmitted back to Earth.
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Mars '76
Images from the first successful landers on Mars are still worth looking at
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NASA spacecraft hurtles toward historic New Year's flyby
A NASA spacecraft is hurtling toward a historic New Year's Day flyby of the most distant planetary object ever studied, a frozen relic of the early solar system called Ultima Thule.
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NASA spacecraft hurtles toward historic New Year's flyby
A NASA spacecraft is hurtling toward a historic New Year's Day flyby of the most distant planetary object ever studied, a frozen relic of the early solar system called Ultima Thule.
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NASA spacecraft hurtles toward historic New Year's flyby
A NASA spacecraft is hurtling toward a historic New Year's Day flyby of the most distant planetary object ever studied, a frozen relic of the early solar system called Ultima Thule.
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This artist's illustration obtained from NASA shows the New Horizons spacecraft encountering
2014 MU69- nicknamed "Ultima Thule" – a Kuiper Belt object that orbits one billion miles beyond Pluto.
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This artist's illustration obtained from NASA shows the New Horizons spacecraft encountering
2014 MU69- nicknamed "Ultima Thule" – a Kuiper Belt object that orbits one billion miles beyond Pluto.
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NASA rings in New Year with historic flyby of faraway world
NASA rang in the New Year on Tuesday with a historic flyby of the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever explored by humankind—a tiny, distant world called Ultima Thule—in the hopes of learning more about how planets took shape.
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NASA rings in New Year with historic flyby of faraway world
NASA rang in the New Year on Tuesday with a historic flyby of the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever explored by humankind—a tiny, distant world called Ultima Thule—in the hopes of learning more about how planets took shape.
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NASA rings in New Year with historic flyby of faraway world
NASA rang in the New Year on Tuesday with a historic flyby of the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever explored by humankind—a tiny, distant world called Ultima Thule—in the hopes ...
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NASA's New Horizons Spies Elongated Target Ultima Thule Ahead of Flyby
LAUREL, Md. — After months of staring at only a single pixel of their target, members of NASA's New Horizons mission team now have considerably more to look at. On the eve of its historic flyby, the spacecraft has sent home an image that confirms its distant target, Ultima Thule, has an elongated shape
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NASA's New Horizons Spies Elongated Target Ultima Thule Ahead of Flyby
LAUREL, Md. — After months of staring at only a single pixel of their target, members of NASA's New Horizons mission team now have considerably more to look at. On the eve of its historic flyby, the spacecraft has sent home an image that confirms its distant target, Ultima Thule, has an elongated shape
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Space.com
NASA's New Horizons Spies Elongated Target Ultima Thule Ahead of Flyby
Less than 12 hours before the closest flyby of the most distant solar system object ever, the New Horizons team released an image of its target, Ultima Thule.
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Another Day, Another Exoplanet: NASA’s TESS Keeps Counting More
NASA’s new planet-hunting machine, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, is racking up scores of alien worlds.
Less than a quarter of the way through a two-year search for nearby Earthlike worlds, TESS has already discovered 203 possible planets, according to George R. Ricker, an astrophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the leader of the project. Three of those candidates already have been confirmed as real planets by ground-based telescopes.
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Another Day, Another Exoplanet: NASA’s TESS Keeps Counting More
NASA’s new planet-hunting machine, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, is racking up scores of alien worlds.
Less than a quarter of the way through a two-year search for nearby Earthlike worlds, TESS has already discovered 203 possible planets, according to George R. Ricker, an astrophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the leader of the project. Three of those candidates already have been confirmed as real planets by ground-based telescopes.
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NY Times
Another Day, Another Exoplanet: NASA’s TESS Keeps Counting More
The latest discovery is a lumbering, dense ball of gas that orbits a red dwarf star 53 light-years away in the constellation Reticulum.
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More Trouble for the Hubble Telescope as a Primary Camera Malfunctions
Last year a gyroscope died, now there’s a camera glitch. That’s just the telescope “aging gracefully,” the mission director said.
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More Trouble for the Hubble Telescope as a Primary Camera Malfunctions
Last year a gyroscope died, now there’s a camera glitch. That’s just the telescope “aging gracefully,” the mission director said.
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NY Times
More Trouble for the Hubble Telescope as a Primary Camera Malfunctions
Last year a gyroscope died, now there’s a camera glitch. That’s just the telescope “aging gracefully,” the mission director said.