Space nerds, rejoice! NASA’s InSight spacecraft just landed on Mars

NASA just showed us all how to land on Mars… again. 

At about 2:54 p.m. ET, mission controllers on Earth got word that the space agency’s InSight lander — designed to study the red planet’s interior — successfully landed on Mars about 8 minutes earlier. (It takes 8 minutes and 7 seconds for a signal from Mars to reach us Earthlings.)

Assuming the spacecraft’s upcoming checkouts prove it to be healthy, InSight’s successful touchdown marks the 8th time NASA has managed to softly land and operate a rover or lander on the red planet. 

The American space agency remains the only organization to ever successfully land a rover or lander on Mars.  Read more…

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