Posted on 11/26/2018 11:09:35 AM PST by LibWhacker
NASA's InSight lander is scheduled to touch down on Mars at approximately 3 p.m. EST, Monday, Nov. 26. NASA TV live coverage of the InSight Mars landing will begin at 2 p.m. Eastern (7 p.m. UTC). Follow @NASA and @NASAInSight for #MarsLanding news. See a list or an interactive timeline of landing milestones. News briefings and launch commentary will be streamed on NASA TV, YouTube.com/NASAJPL/live and Ustream.tv/NASAJPL.
Monday, Nov. 26, 2 p.m. Eastern: NASA TV live coverage of InSight mission landing on Mars. Live landing commentary runs from 2-3:30 p.m. The Entry, Descent and Landing phase will be the final plunge of NASA's Mars InSight Lander through the Martian atmosphere. It lasts about six minutes and delivers the lander safely to the surface of the Red Planet.
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Altitude 400M
And... we are down!
TOUCHDOWN!
Standing by for touchdown!
Touchdown confirmed!
WOW! That was so fast.
The fastest fingers in the universe!
Wait! There’s a flag on the play.. Marvin has asked for a ruling from the remote cameras judges.
Landed
Touchdown!!!
Hooyah! That was quick.
Oh, okay, thank you! Lol, thought I had missed an important component of this mission!
Standing by for the field goal!
Got IT!!
What the.....
All that beautiful red sky.
When they beamed back the first Mars Viking lander pictures in 1976, they erroneously showed the landscape framed by blue sky. Oops!
The new probe is gonna look for seismic activity on Mars.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee wants to see where men placed the U.S. flag in 1969. /s
We should go for 2!
Too bad they couldn’t have sent Mad Maxine along with it.
The guy on camera now just said Pence called with congratulations just a few seconds after touchdown .. pretty cool.
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