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Nasa’s InSight probe lands on Mars
December 4 , 2018
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- NASA’s InSight spacecraft has landed safely on the surface of Mars at Elysium Planitia after a six-month journey.
- It was NASA’s 9th attempt to land at Mars since the 1976 Viking probes with 8 of them successfully landing on the Mars.
- The last landed spacecraft on Mars by NASA was on the year 2012.
- InSight will spend 24 months – about one Martian year.
- The InSight has carried with itself, the instruments that detect planetary heat and seismic rumblings never measured anywhere else but Earth.
- InSight stands for Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport.
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