{"id":17120,"date":"2018-11-21T11:46:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T16:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17120"},"modified":"2018-11-21T11:46:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T16:46:15","slug":"mars-insight-news-conferences-mars-2020-landing-target-soft-landslides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17120","title":{"rendered":"Mars: Insight news conferences + Mars 2020 landing target + Soft landslides"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASA TV<\/a> will webcast two programs today about the upcoming touch down<\/a> of the Insight<\/a> lander on Mars: NASA Live: InSight Mars Landing | NASA\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

NASA’s InSight lander is scheduled to touch down on Mars at approximately 3 p.m. EST, Monday, Nov. 26<\/u>. NASA TV live coverage of the InSight Mars landing will begin at 2 p.m. Eastern (7 p.m. UTC). Upcoming briefings:<\/em><\/p>\n

Wednesday, Nov. 21, 1 p.m. EST: InSight Mars Lander news conference<\/a>: Mission engineering overview.<\/em>
\nWednesday, Nov. 21, 2 p.m. EST: InSight Mars Lander news conference<\/a>: Mission science overview<\/em><\/p>\n

It will take about 8 minutes for signals from Insight to reach earth during its descent through the atmosphere and the touch down on the surface. Here’s an item about the communications systems that allow for ground controllers to know what happened : How NASA Will Know When InSight Touches Down – NASA JPL<\/a><\/p>\n

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Insight landing sequence: Credits: Emily Lakdawalla for The Planetary Society<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The Mars 2020 Rover<\/a>, which is similar in design and capabilities to the Curiosity rover<\/a>, now knows where it will land: NASA Announces Landing Site for Mars 2020 Rover – NASA JPL<\/a><\/p>\n

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This Mars map depicts the final four locations under consideration for the landing site of Mars 2020. The topographic map of Mars was created by the Mars Orbital Laser Altimeter (MOLA) on board the robot Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. MOLA measured heights on Mars by precisely determining the time it took for a low power laser beam to bounce off the surface. Image Credit: NASA\/MGS\/MOLA Science Team. Larger view<\/a>
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Speaking of Curiosity, here is a recent update on its activities: Curiosity on the Move Again | NASA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Bob Zimmerman examines an image taken<\/a> of the Martian surface and highlights what is similar and different between geologic processes on Mars versus on the Earth: The soft landslides of Mars | Behind The Black<\/a><\/p>\n

The light gravity of Mars, combined with different materials, a lot of dust, and a geological history different from Earth, produces events that \u2014 though reminiscent of similar geological events on Earth \u2014 are definitely not the same.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Landslide in Southern Mid-Latitude Crater – HiRISE<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Telescopes and Binoculars at Amazon<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NASA TV will webcast two programs today about the upcoming touch down of the Insight lander on Mars: NASA Live: InSight Mars Landing | NASA\u00a0 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 … Continue reading Mars: Insight news conferences + Mars 2020 landing target + Soft landslides<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mars","category-space-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-4s8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17142,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17142","url_meta":{"origin":17120,"position":0},"title":"Videos: Follow the Insight Mission landing on Mars today [Update]","author":"TopSpacer","date":"November 26, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"[ Update: The landing was a success: NASA InSight Lander Arrives on Martian Surface | NASA ] NASA's Insight spacecraft will set down on the Martian surface today Nov. 26th at around noon PST (3 p.m. EST). 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