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back to article Put November 26 in your diary: That’s when Mars InSight lands. Hopefully

NASA’s successfully launched Mars InSight, the probe it hopes will help us to understand the interior of the Red Planet and therefore a little more about how rocky planets form. Mars InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) was supposed to be on Mars already, but missed its 2016 …

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  1. Mike Henderson

    Landing, that's easy

    Of course it'll land ... but softly and in one piece, that's the hard part

    Good luck NASA

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    1. ravenviz Silver badge
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      Re: Landing, that's easy

      Indeed a feat!

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  2. handleoclast
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    Bad timing

    They should have gone for a landing on Nov 5th. That way, if it went wrong, we'd have some fireworks.

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  3. MT Field

    It's tricky to land on Mars, land on Mars, land on Mars

    It's tricky to land on Mars, it's tricky tricky tricky.

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