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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nasa.gov ...
Lllllleeeeeerrrrrrrroooooooyyyy Jjjeeeeeennnnnnnkkkkkiiiiinnnnssssss!!!
I went to the url that's cited above but didn't see anything about ways to watch live. Did I use the right url ?
I hope NASA finds the missing 30,000 Hillary emails ...
It’s amazingly difficult to hit the tiny window anytime.... the margins between crash-boom-destruction and bouncing off the (minimal) Martian atmosphere are extremely tiny.
NASA.gov feed keeps locking up.
Wassup with the (way too) cutesie matching shirts ?
“Crew? stage” separation happening now...
Do they really need all those people there? All in their uniforms, headsets, terminals. To me, this looks like a geeky frat party and a massive waste of funds.
It’s all fake
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Where’s OJ? *-}
Good question! Heavier ship. Much heavier. It’s entering the atmosphere at 12,000mph and all that mass has to be brought down to 5mph at touchdown. Mars’ atmosphere is only 1% as dense as earth’s, so there isn’t much there, or wouldn’t seem to be, to slow it down. But there is enough to bring it down to about 800mph, at which time a giant supersonic parachute will open. It’s just amazing what they are trying to do.
Hey!
Lotta white males in that control room :-)
They’re all Redskin fans. Oops, I see a couple of Steeler fans in one group.
OJ? Where’s Gene Kranz?
LOL, where is that gif of Marvin shooting his gun?
That control room is almost as white as a Cracker Barrel.
When you only have one chance to get it right, you bring the “A” team ...
Heat shield separation command sent...
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