NASA's Insight spacecraft touches down on Mars
- 5 years ago
NASA 화성탐사선 '인사이트', 화성 착륙 성공
After seven months of traveling through deep space,... NASA's InSight robot landed on the Red Planet early Tuesday, Korea time.
Oh Soo-young tells us more about this remarkable breakthrough in space exploration.
NASA's spacecraft InSight is now on the surface of Mars,... beginning its two-year mission to uncover what the planet is made up of.
The nail-biting moment came early Tuesday Korea time, just six-and-a-half minutes after the robot hit the Martian atmosphere at almost 20-thousand kilometers per hour.
The spacecraft was launched in May from Southern California, and travelled a total of 485 million kilometers through deep space.
InSight is the first robot to land on Mars in six years,... and has been designed to delve deeper into the structure of the planet and how it was formed.
The three-legged probe will use an array of equipment to drill five meters into the Martian surface in order to detect the heat flow.
It'll aim to see whether the planet is seismically active by observing movements beneath the crust.
The spacecraft will also use radio equipment to try and determine the size of the planet's core and whether it's made of liquid or solid.
The robot will begin collecting data within the first week of its landing,... and NASA will aim to deploy InSight's key instruments onto the Martian ground for assistance within two to three months.
Only four in ten missions deployed to Mars have been successful.
For the InSight mission to be deemed a success, it must deploy its solar panels properly.
NASA says this cannot be confirmed until more than five hours after touchdown.
Oh Soo-young, Arirang News.
After seven months of traveling through deep space,... NASA's InSight robot landed on the Red Planet early Tuesday, Korea time.
Oh Soo-young tells us more about this remarkable breakthrough in space exploration.
NASA's spacecraft InSight is now on the surface of Mars,... beginning its two-year mission to uncover what the planet is made up of.
The nail-biting moment came early Tuesday Korea time, just six-and-a-half minutes after the robot hit the Martian atmosphere at almost 20-thousand kilometers per hour.
The spacecraft was launched in May from Southern California, and travelled a total of 485 million kilometers through deep space.
InSight is the first robot to land on Mars in six years,... and has been designed to delve deeper into the structure of the planet and how it was formed.
The three-legged probe will use an array of equipment to drill five meters into the Martian surface in order to detect the heat flow.
It'll aim to see whether the planet is seismically active by observing movements beneath the crust.
The spacecraft will also use radio equipment to try and determine the size of the planet's core and whether it's made of liquid or solid.
The robot will begin collecting data within the first week of its landing,... and NASA will aim to deploy InSight's key instruments onto the Martian ground for assistance within two to three months.
Only four in ten missions deployed to Mars have been successful.
For the InSight mission to be deemed a success, it must deploy its solar panels properly.
NASA says this cannot be confirmed until more than five hours after touchdown.
Oh Soo-young, Arirang News.