NASA InSight is using its solar panels to collect sunlight on the Martian surface (Photo: NASA)
By edhat staff
NASA’s Insight spacecraft successfully landed on Mars Monday afternoon.
Insight launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base this past May and according to NASA it was Vandenberg’s first launch mission to another planet.
The spacecraft landed around 12:00 p.m. PST on Mars after traveling for six months. The international effort cost $1 billion and was the first time in six years that NASA attempted to land on Mars, reports the NASA.
It took more than eight minutes for the radio transmission to cross nearly 100 million miles between Mars and Earth notifying scientists of a safe touch down. Watching the harrowing journey below:
Good old NG, with their business strategy of buying up smaller competitors who are profitable, sucking away all the profits for their bloated bureaucracy, and then laying off the survivors. They did the same thing to us.