{"id":37702,"date":"2018-11-28T17:26:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T11:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=37702"},"modified":"2018-11-28T17:26:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T11:56:16","slug":"nasas-insight-spacecraft-lands-on-red-planet-after-six-month-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nasas-insight-spacecraft-lands-on-red-planet-after-six-month-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s InSight spacecraft lands on red planet after six-month journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/nasa-spacecraft-lands-on-red-planet-after-six-month-journey\/article25601733.ece\">NASA&#8217;s InSight spacecraft lands on red planet after six-month journey<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>NASA\u2019s robotic InSight lander designed to dig into the rocky Martian surface to reveal its secrets successfully touched down on the Red Planet recently.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Important Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>The plan called for the spacecraft to go from 12,300 mph (19,800 kph) to zero in six minutes flat as it pierced the Martian atmosphere and settled on the surface.<\/li>\n<li>The stationary 800-pound (360-kilogram) lander will use its 6-foot (1.8-metre) robotic arm to place a mechanical mole and seismometer on the ground.<\/li>\n<li>The self-hammering mole will burrow 16 feet (5 metres) down to measure the planet\u2019s internal heat, while the seismometer listens for possible quakes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>NASA\u2019s InSight mission<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (INSIGHT), is a Mars lander designed by NASA to study the deep interior of Mars, taking the planet\u2019s vital signs, its pulse and temperature.<\/li>\n<li>It is the first outer space robotic explorer to study in-depth the \u201cinner space\u201d of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core, since the planet formed 4.5 billion years ago.<\/li>\n<li>InSight has three Science Instruments, namely a seismometer, a heat flow probe and a radio science experiment to analyse MARS interior.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n<li><strong>Background:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>It was NASA\u2019s ninth attempt to land at Mars since the 1976 Viking probes. NASA last landed on Mars in 2012 with the Curiosity rover.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n<li><strong>Previous landing attempts on Mars:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Mars has been the graveyard for a multitude of space missions.<\/li>\n<li>Up to now, the success rate at the red planet has been only 40 percent, counting every attempted flyby, orbital flight and landing by the U.S., Russia and other countries since 1960.<\/li>\n<li>The U.S., however, has pulled off seven successful Mars landings in the past four decades, not counting InSight, with only one failed touchdown.<\/li>\n<li>No other country has managed to set and operate a spacecraft on the dusty red surface.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37695\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/insight.jpg?resize=594%2C415&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/insight.jpg?w=594&amp;ssl=1 594w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/insight.jpg?resize=150%2C105&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/insight.jpg?resize=300%2C210&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s InSight spacecraft lands on red planet after six-month journey News: NASA\u2019s robotic InSight lander designed to dig into the rocky Martian surface to reveal its secrets successfully touched down on the Red Planet recently. Important Facts: The plan called for the spacecraft to go from 12,300 mph (19,800 kph) to zero in six minutes&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nasas-insight-spacecraft-lands-on-red-planet-after-six-month-journey\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NASA&#8217;s InSight spacecraft lands on red planet after six-month journey<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704766203},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}