I acquired my Mars mission , Insight ,boarding pass about a month ago. Here's what it's about.
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Wikipedia
date 2017
November 05
time, 11:39
InSight is a robotic Mars lander manufactured in the 2010s which was originally planned for launch in March 2016.[8] The name is a backronym for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport.[1] Due to the failure of its SEIS instrument prior to launch, NASA announced in December 2015 that the mission had been postponed, and in March 2016, launch was rescheduled for 5 May 2018.
InSight's objective is to place a stationary lander equipped with a seismometer and heat transfer probe on the surface of Mars to study the planet's early geological evolution. This could bring new understanding of the Solar System's terrestrial planets — Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars — and the Earth’s Moon. By reusing technology from the Mars Phoenix lander, which successfully landed on Mars in 2008, it is expected that the cost and risk will be reduced.[1]
Following a persistent vacuum failure in the main scientific instrument, the launch window was missed, and the InSightspacecraft was returned to Lockheed Martin's facility in Colorado. NASA officials decided in March 2016 to spend an estimated US$150 million to delay launching InSight to May 2018.[3]
From
Wikipedia
date 2017
November 05
time, 11:39
InSight is a robotic Mars lander manufactured in the 2010s which was originally planned for launch in March 2016.[8] The name is a backronym for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport.[1] Due to the failure of its SEIS instrument prior to launch, NASA announced in December 2015 that the mission had been postponed, and in March 2016, launch was rescheduled for 5 May 2018.
InSight's objective is to place a stationary lander equipped with a seismometer and heat transfer probe on the surface of Mars to study the planet's early geological evolution. This could bring new understanding of the Solar System's terrestrial planets — Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars — and the Earth’s Moon. By reusing technology from the Mars Phoenix lander, which successfully landed on Mars in 2008, it is expected that the cost and risk will be reduced.[1]
Following a persistent vacuum failure in the main scientific instrument, the launch window was missed, and the InSightspacecraft was returned to Lockheed Martin's facility in Colorado. NASA officials decided in March 2016 to spend an estimated US$150 million to delay launching InSight to May 2018.[3]
Elysium Planitia,
The landing site of the Insight mission.
The landing site of the Insight mission.
from Wikipedia
date 2017
November 05
time:11:37
Elysium Planitia, located in the Elysium and Aeolis quadrangles, is a broad plain that straddles the equator of Mars, centered at 3.0°N 154.7°E.[1] It lies to the south of the volcanic province of Elysium, the second largest volcanic region on the planet, after Tharsis.
The largest craters in this Elysium Planitia are Eddie, Lockyer, and Tombaugh. Elysium contains major volcanoes named Elysium Mons and Albor Tholus and river valleys--one of which, Athabasca Valles may be one of the youngest on Mars. On the east side is an elongated depression called Orcus Patera.
A 2005 photo of a locale within Elysium Planitia at 5° N, 150° E by the Mars Express spacecraft shows what may be ash-covered water ice. The volume of ice is estimated to be 800 km (500 mi) by 900 km (560 mi) in size and 45 m (148 ft) deep, similar in size and depth to the North Sea.[2] The ice is thought to be the remains of water floods from the Cerberus Fossaefissures about 2 to 10 million years ago. The surface of the area is broken into 'plates' like broken ice floating on a lake. Impact crater counts show that the plates are up to 1 million years older than the gap material, showing that the area solidified much too slowly for the material to be basaltic lava.[3]
The InSight mission is expected to land on Elysium Planitia in November 2018.[4]
The vectors and the physics of how to get there.
date 2017
November 05
time:11:37
Elysium Planitia, located in the Elysium and Aeolis quadrangles, is a broad plain that straddles the equator of Mars, centered at 3.0°N 154.7°E.[1] It lies to the south of the volcanic province of Elysium, the second largest volcanic region on the planet, after Tharsis.
The largest craters in this Elysium Planitia are Eddie, Lockyer, and Tombaugh. Elysium contains major volcanoes named Elysium Mons and Albor Tholus and river valleys--one of which, Athabasca Valles may be one of the youngest on Mars. On the east side is an elongated depression called Orcus Patera.
A 2005 photo of a locale within Elysium Planitia at 5° N, 150° E by the Mars Express spacecraft shows what may be ash-covered water ice. The volume of ice is estimated to be 800 km (500 mi) by 900 km (560 mi) in size and 45 m (148 ft) deep, similar in size and depth to the North Sea.[2] The ice is thought to be the remains of water floods from the Cerberus Fossaefissures about 2 to 10 million years ago. The surface of the area is broken into 'plates' like broken ice floating on a lake. Impact crater counts show that the plates are up to 1 million years older than the gap material, showing that the area solidified much too slowly for the material to be basaltic lava.[3]
The InSight mission is expected to land on Elysium Planitia in November 2018.[4]
The vectors and the physics of how to get there.