Elizabeth Howell first became interested in space after watching the movie "Apollo 13" as a teenager in 1996, kickstarting a lifelong fascination with the 1960s and 1970s human lunar landing program. She has watched five human spaceflight launches since and participated in a simulated Mars missio...
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InSight is the first mission of NASA to investigate the deep interior of Mars and is part of a legacy of robotic exploration that is helping to lay the groundwork for sending humans to Mars in the 2030s. The mission will place a stationary lander near Mars' equator. With two solar panels...
The rover, named Perseverance, will have to make it through "seven minutes of terror" – the time it takes to travel through the thin atmosphere of Mars to its surface. Due to the 11-minute communication delay with Earth, the spacecraft has to perform the landin...
The lander's instruments include a seismometer to detect marsquakes and a probe that will monitor the flow of heat on the planet's subsurface. The lander will be a stationary mission, not like NASA's previous Mars rovers such as Opportunity, Spirit and Curiosity. Staying in one place is ne...
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