Is today! NASA to broadcast live from Mars InSight spacecraft landing

NASA has announced that it will make a live broadcast today of the InSight spacecraft landing on Martian soil. The ship should start its descent at 18h sharp (Brazilian Summer Time). Broadcast from the US space agency, however, begins at 5 pm to show all the preparation for landing.

The entire descent should take just six minutes to the Elysium Plain, where InSight should study the formation of our neighboring planet through seismic, geodetic and heat investigations.

This is where the name of this probe comes from, and InSight is short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport. In Portuguese, this could be translated as “Interior Exploration using seismic, geodetic and heat transport investigations”.

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Tomorrow, we are set to land our InSight mission on Mars! It is the first mission dedicated to studying the deep interior of Mars. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is scheduled to land at Elysium Planitia with live coverage starting at 2 pm EST at www.nasa.gov/live. The mission's entry, descent, and landing phase begins when the spacecraft reaches the Martian atmosphere, about 80 miles (about 128 kilometers) above the surface, and ends with the lander safe and sound on the surface of Mars minutes later. Credit: NASA / JPL #InSight #MarsLanding #NASAInSight #NASA #JPL #NASAJPL #redplanet #theredplanet #Martian #planet #Mars #space #solarsystem #Planet #landing #land #animation

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The descent of the probe begins when it reaches the 128 km altitude mark in relation to the Martian surface. From there, the six-minute countdown begins. It is also interesting to note that, considering the distance and time it takes for radio waves to travel through space to Earth, everything that appears in the broadcast should arrive here a few minutes late.

You can watch this NASA “live” broadcast on the NASA website via this link or in the video below.

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