Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena was buzzing with people as the countdown clock approached noon on November 26th. Eyes around the world were on engineers Julie Wertz Chen and Christine Szalai, who were working the main console in mission control, giving the play-by-play as the Mars InSight spacecraft began the “seven minutes of terror” — plunging through the atmosphere at 16 times the speed of sound to then softly land on the dusty Red Planet’s surface.
Only 40 percent of Mars landings have ever succeeded, and InSight just joined their ranks.
Only 40 percent of Mars landings have ever succeeded, and InSight just joined their ranks.
- 3/1/2019
- by Shannon Stirone
- Rollingstone.com
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