It’s going down. All the best of luck!
First Mars mission I’ve followed this closely. It’s terrifying 🙂
Re-entry!
Supersonic chute deployed.
Touchdown!
My boss just ran downstairs shouting “Insight landed!” I had no idea he was into space stuff. I’ve never seen him that excited.
First image - of the Martian horizon with the dust cap still on
Damn I keep missing these events! I should have placed a reminder on my phone.
Guess they got the dust cover off!
Amazing.
That is awesome and i even have mars rover pics of Mars on my wall. What a view!
It’s nifty and all that, but we have been doing it since the 1970s…
I meant the view of the rocket! Of course the mars picture is amazing as well.
It’s still extremely hard to do, technically, and there are pretty constant failures for not just landings, but even orbitals.
I think this was linked upthread, but it’s almost depressing thinking of the money and manpower over time that went into failures alone.
My favorite was when when the engineers responsible for the probe thrusters used Imperial and everyone else was using metric.
“What do you mean we weren’t using pounds?”
This after the probe had disintegrated in Mars’ atmosphere.
yeah, but we’re the only ones who have succeeded:
True, but the Soviets landed 10 probes on Venus, while we have only done one (and that kind of by accident.)
Truedat. OTOH we can send people to Mars. Try that on Venus.
I thought the rest of this was going to read …March song as the lander touched down.
