InSight, MarCO-A, MarCO-B - Atlas V 401 - Vandenberg SLC-3E - 05.05.2018 - 11:05 UTC

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 2 мин. назад

Bruce Banerdt: we're very level, less than 2 degrees of tilt. "It's time to get going."

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Снимок Марса камерой MarCO

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 3 мин. назад

Andy Klesh, MarCO engineer: this has been a fantastic day for spacecraft great and small.

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 3 мин. назад

Klesh: no dropped frames, no dropped data from MarCO. Also took an image fro Mars about 10-15 minutes after EDL flying by Mars.


NASA JPL‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASAJPL 4 мин. назад

We'll always have #Mars. After relaying live communications for @NASAInSight as it landed, the tiny #MARCO B cubesat sent back this farewell image of the planet. #MarsLanding

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 3 мин. назад

Klesh: two more weeks to bring down rest of data from MarCO during EDL. Discussing with NASA ideas for extended mission.

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11/27/2018 01:26 Stephen Clark

For Bruce Banerdt, InSight's principal investigator, today's landing was a culmination in a career spanning more than four decades at JPL. He has pursued and proposed a seismic research mission like InSight for most of his career, which began in 1976 at JPL as a summer intern.

"People keep talking about my science, and my mission, but ... really (what) we're doing as a science team is for the world. The science that we're doing belongs to everybody," he said.

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 1 мин. назад

Hoffman: don't have exact figures, but we're very close to the targeted landing site.

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11/27/2018 01:33 Stephen Clark

Andrew Klesh, MarCO chief engineer at JPL, has presented an image captured of Mars as one of the CubeSats sailed by Mars minutes after InSight's landing today.



The image shows part of the spacecraft's X-band antenna reflector in the foreground, with the rust-colored globe of Mars backdropped by the blackness of space.

"Having successfully brought all the data back from InSight during its exciting entry, descent and landing sequence, what you see before you is an image taken roughly 4,700 miles from Mars at about 12:10 p.m. (PST), 10 to 15 minutes after EDL itself happened," Klesh said. "This image is really our farewell to InSight, our wish for good luck, and our farewell to Mars itself as we continue on to complete our primary mission as part of MarCO."

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 2 мин.назад

Elizabeth Barrett: over the next couple of sols (Martian days) we'll assess the health of the robotic arm and checkouts of the insights.

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 4 мин. назад

Hoffman: very happy we have an incredibly safe and boring landing site; exactly what we wanted.

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 3 мин. назад

Q: how long until we land a person on Mars?
Bridenstine: I'm going to say mid-2030s. That's aggressive.


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That's followed by a well-practiced spiel on NASA's human exploration plans, including Gateway and lunar return.

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 43 сек. назад

Klesh: additional data to come from MarCO will be telemetry from the cubesats themselves, and possibly additional images.

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Jim Bridenstine‏Подлинная учетная запись @JimBridenstine 1 ч. назад

What an accomplishment. @NASAInSight marks the eighth time in human history we have successfully landed on Mars. The best of @NASA is yet to come, and it is coming soon. https://go.nasa.gov/2QhCeBX  #MarsLanding

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 50 сек. назад

Barrett: have a testbed here we will terraform to look like landing site to practice instrument deployment. [Maybe "aresform"?]

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 17 сек. назад

Bridenstine hints NASA planning development of additional communications capability at Mars to replace aging orbiters. [That had been discussed in the past, but "lean" sample return was supposed to be done fast enough to avoid need for additional comms orbiters.]

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 2 мин. назад

InSight and MarCO team members pass by the podium to high-five Bridenstine et al.