Tag: Mars
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NASA orbiter spots InSight lander (and its junked hardware) on Mars’ surface
NASA’s InSight lander (at center, with its two solar arrays), its heat shield (at right) and its parachute (at left) were imaged on Dec. 6 and 11 by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Click on the image for a larger version. (NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona Photo) Two weeks after…
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NASA’s InSight lander captures the first sounds of a ‘windy afternoon’ on Mars
A raw image from NASA’s InSight lander shows the spacecraft’s robotic arm in the foreground, hanging over a solar panel. The terrain of Mars’ Elysium Planitia stretches out in the background. The colors look muted because they haven’t been fully calibrated. (NASA / JPL-Caltech Photo) NASA’s Mars InSight lander is designed primarily to study the…
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Move over, Elon: Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg ‘absolutely’ would go to Mars
CNBC’s Becky Quick, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson look on as Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg talks about his Red Planet aspirations. (CNBC / BRT via YouTube) Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg often says that the first person to set foot on Mars will get there on a Boeing-built rocket, but at…
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NASA’s Mars InSight lander snaps selfies galore, including a name check for its fans
A photo snapped by the camera on the InSight lander’s robotic arm shows instruments on the spacecraft’s deck with Martian terrain in the background. The pointer indicates the location of two chips bearing the microscopic etched names of 2.4 million fans. (NASA / JPL-Caltech Photo) One week after landing on the Martian plain of Elysium…
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InSight healthy, prepares for a two Earth year primary science mission
Three days after a spectacularly successful landing on the surface of Mars, the InSight lander, packed with international science experiments, remains healthy as control teams on Earth gradually configure the lander for its two Earth-year primary scientific mission. Configuring InSight for its primary mission: Following a picture-perfect landing on Monday on Elysium Planitia on Mars,…
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NASA, international InSight mission nail PERFECT landing on Mars
NASA’s InSight lander has performed a perfect and critical entry and descent through the Martian atmosphere to gently touchdown on Mars’ Elysium Planitia. The landing came after a flawless six and a half month cruise through the interplanetary space between Earth and Mars and was humanity’s first successful landing on Mars in over six years…
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Rev up the video: It’s time for NASA’s InSight lander to touch down on Mars
An artist’s conception shows NASA’s Mars InSight firing its thrusters for landing. (NASA / JPL-Caltech Illustration) Today’s the day for the Mars InSight lander’s touchdown on the Red Planet, and NASA is pulling out all the stops to let us in on the action. This is the first Mars landing to take place since the…
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NASA’s InSight lander touches down on Mars and sends gloriously gritty pictures
At NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., InSight project manager Tom Hoffman reacts to the first image from the Mars InSight lander after its touchdown. (NASA Photo / Bill Ingalls) REDMOND, Wash. — NASA’s Mars InSight lander touched down on a heavenly Martian plain Monday, marking the first successful landing on the Red Planet…
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From The Oatmeal to the space station, Mars InSight lander’s fans are all a-Twitter
Today’s smashingly successful touchdown of NASA’s InSight lander on Mars was a cause for celebration on Twitter. There was good-natured snark from SarcasticRover and from Matthew Inman, the Seattle cartoonist behind The Oatmeal (following up on his terrific preview of the landing). And there were heartfelt congratulations from the space community’s celebrities, including SpaceX founder Elon Musk…
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Elon Musk says there’s a 70 percent chance he’ll move to Mars (and possibly die there)
Axios’ Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen interview SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. (Axios / HBO via YouTube) As NASA prepares for its next Mars landing on Monday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is giving himself a 70 percent chance of moving to Mars. But in an Axios interview airing tonight on HBO, he emphasizes that it won’t…