Here's How to Watch the Insight Landing on Mars on Monday

Live Science ^ | November 25, 2018 08:25am ET | Yasemin Saplakoglu,

[BenLurkin]

The InSight (or "Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport") lander will push through Mars' thin atmosphere using small rockets, deploy parachutes to slow its fall to the surface, and then use retro rockets to finally stick the landing. It will take about 6 minutes from the time the lander reaches the Martian atmosphere until it touches down on the surface of the Red Planet. (Of course, this is if everything goes according to plan: For example, the lander may face dust storms in the northern hemisphere where it's aiming to land. According to NASA, these autumn Martian storms have grown larger in recent years.

Here's what you'll see: A bunch of NASA commentators and most likely some mock-up landing footage, because, let's face it, there's barely reception in some places of our own planet. Because of the difficulty communicating between planets, NASA may not even know if the landing was successful or not until several hours after the scheduled landing time.

When InSight lands, it will set off a radio signal called a "tone" that radio telescopes on Earth will try to detect. If the craft is healthy and functioning, 7 minutes after landing, it will send a louder beep, according to NASA.

[BenLurkin]

https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/timeline/landing/watch-online/

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Interesting tidbit from the LiveScience page:

...the lander may face dust storms in the northern hemisphere where it's aiming to land. According to NASA, these autumn Martian storms have grown larger in recent years.

No doubt attributable to the emissions from the Rover vehicles that roamed and polluted the planet for so long.

[upchuck]

According to NASA, these autumn Martian storms have grown larger in recent years.

See... they even have climate change (globul warming if you will) on Mars! We're all gonna die!!!

[tennmountainman]

Bump for later.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin. Flat-Earthers will miss it, because the broadcast can't be projected onto the walls of their colons.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

What? Huh? You mean they don’t send live correspondents from NASA TV? Yea, they are in a rocket next to the Mars lander. Right?

[tet68]

Bump for MOnday.

[jonrick46]

Bookmark.

[SES1066]

Is this lander aiming for the US Flag left there? /s

[LibWhacker]

Thanks! Two websites they say to keep an eye on during the landing are:

nasa.gov/live or go.nasa.gov/InSightToolkit

[katykelly]

Bfl

[dragnet2]

Technicians at Lockheed Martin Space attached a protective back shell to NASA's InSight spacecraft, which is folded into its stowed configuration. NASA / JPL / Lockheed Martin

[Vinnie]

According to NASA, these autumn Martian storms have grown larger in recent years.

Man made Climate Change.
Rover exhaust probably.

[dragnet2]

May 27, 2015 The solar arrays on NASA's InSight lander are deployed in this test inside a clean room at Lockheed Martin Space Systems

[tm61]

s’okay
It was built with carryimg capacity of 5 thousand dimes to pay
Tolls and taxes

[terycarl]

This stuff is so amazing that it is frightening!!!!!

[CaliforniaCraftBeer]

thanks for the ‘heads up’ Ben.

[colorado tanker]

Looks like it made it!