NASA's first spacecraft, designed
to detect the deep interior of another world, moved on Mars on a huge, barren
field on Monday, where the devices to detect the heat and seismic distractions
of planets. After sailing 301 million
miles (548 million km) on a six-month journey through deep space, Robot Lander
Insight was due to touching nearly 8 am GMT on the dusty, rocky surface of
the red planet.
If everything is in
accordance with the plan, then InSight will hinder through the top of the
diluted Martian atmosphere at 12,000 miles per hour (19,310 kilometers per
hour).
Insight will land 77 miles from the skies of Mars Mars in 6 minutes in 8
minutes, and by that time it will travel 5 miles per hour (8 kilometers) .
The mission control
team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) near Los Angeles is expected to
receive real-time confirmation of arrival of craft from data retrieved by a
pair of micro satellites launched with Insight
Also expect that a
picture of a new environment of testing on the flat, smooth Martian field near
the equator of the planet can be obtained, which is called Allycema Plenitis.
This site is about
373 miles (600 km) from car-shaped Mars Rover Curiosity 2012 landing spot,
which was sent by NASA to the last spacecraft.
Insight will spend 24 months -
about a Martian year - using seismic surveillance and underground temperature
readings to unlock secrets about the formation and expansion of Mars, other
rocky planets of Earth's original and internal solar system.
Scientists have
expected to see a dozen to 100 marsquakes during the mission, which builds data
to help reduce the depth, density and structure of the core of the planet, the
rocky mantle around it, and the outermost layer, crust. A radio transmitter will return the signals tracking the microscopic rotational plow in Mars to reveal the shape of the core of the planet and possibly it is molten or not.
NASA says it will take two to three months to deploy and operate the main equipment.
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