NASA employees celebrate Mars landing with impressive handshake

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NASA’s newest Mars probe, InSight, made a stunning, successful landing on the red planet on Monday afternoon. The landing triggered celebrations across the globe, prompting one complicated handshake between InSight team members that’s captivating viewers. 

As soon as the announcement was made that InSight was on the ground and doing fine, the pair of mission controllers rolled out a multi-part handshake worthy of the biggest touchdown celebration. 

Our @NASAInSight spacecraft stuck the #MarsLanding!

Its new home is Elysium Planitia, a still, flat region where it’s set to study seismic waves and heat deep below the surface of the Red Planet for a planned two-year mission. Learn more: https://t.co/fIPATUugFo pic.twitter.com/j0hXTjhV6I

— NASA (@NASA) November 26, 2018 Read more…

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