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[[Image:Insight Landing ellipse.jpeg|thumb|center|400px|Landing ellipse in Elysium Planitia, Mars Odyssey orbiter image, NASA/JPL-Caltech]] |
[[Image:Insight Landing ellipse.jpeg|thumb|center|400px|Landing ellipse in Elysium Planitia, Mars Odyssey orbiter image, NASA/JPL-Caltech]] |
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* [https://earthsky.org/space/how-nasa-will-know-when-insight-touches-down How will NASA know when InSight touches down?] - this also mentions an interesting first - first mission to Mars that will deploy cubesats into Mars orbit. They can relay back themselves and they can also maybe even take a photograph of the lander on the surface immediately after a successful landing (or of the crash site if it crashes, to help them figure out what happened). First interplanetary cube sats |
* [https://earthsky.org/space/how-nasa-will-know-when-insight-touches-down How will NASA know when InSight touches down?] - this also mentions an interesting first - first mission to Mars that will deploy cubesats into Mars orbit. They can relay back themselves and they can also maybe even take a photograph of the lander on the surface immediately after a successful landing (or of the crash site if it crashes, to help them figure out what happened). First interplanetary cube sats |
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[[File:PIA19388-Mars-InSight-MarCO-CubeSats-20150612.jpg|thumb|center|400px|Mars Cube One - the two briefcase sized 'cube sats' which succcessfully relayed back telemetry and also the first image from the surface. They were on a separate trajectory and did a flyby of Mars and then headed off into interplanetary space.]] |
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* [https://www.universetoday.com/140455/mars-insight-lands-on-november-26th-heres-where-its-going-to-touch-down/ Mars InSight Lands on November 26th. Here’s where it’s going to touch down] shows the landing site on a Mars global map. Also explains more about how the selected the site in order to have solar power they needed to be in the equatorial regions. |
* [https://www.universetoday.com/140455/mars-insight-lands-on-november-26th-heres-where-its-going-to-touch-down/ Mars InSight Lands on November 26th. Here’s where it’s going to touch down] shows the landing site on a Mars global map. Also explains more about how the selected the site in order to have solar power they needed to be in the equatorial regions. |
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[[Image:Insight Landing site.jpeg|thumb|center|400px|Landing site - notice how close it is to the equator, NASA/JPL-Caltech]] |
[[Image:Insight Landing site.jpeg|thumb|center|400px|Landing site - notice how close it is to the equator, NASA/JPL-Caltech]] |
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