After a one-month trip, NASA's InSight aircraft is ready to land on Mars. You can watch the landing at 9 at night in Greece.
NASA provides live coverage of landing on November 26 from 9 p.m. (the real landing starts at 9:40pm) on almost all video channels. It certainly offers a lot more options than the Curiosity landing in 2012.
The usual channels are Youtube, where you can watch the whole process without comments, at Twitch (in the first two there will be 360 degree video) and in Facebook .
There will also be locations around the world. In the US, you can see the landing in places like Times Square, the American Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Space Center Houston and California Science Center LA.
If all goes well According to the plan, some procedures are scheduled to take place in just a few minutes. InSight should technically land at 9:54 p.m., but will not send confirmation until 10:01 p.m. How fast you get details will depend on two cubesats (Mars Cube One) making a flyby and retransmitting InSight data.
Cubesats are two experimental microsatellitestaxes που ταξίδεψαν μαζί με το InSight, πετώντας πίσω από αυτό. Έχουν μέγεθος χαρτοφύλακα και βάρος 13,5 κιλών ο καθένας. Θα δοκιμασθούν για πρώτη φορά σε άλλον πλανήτη και θα λειτουργήσουν ως εναλλακτικός και πιο γρήγορος αναμεταδότης των ραδιοσημάτων του InSight προς τη Γη, παρακάμπτοντας τις μεγάλες δορυφορικές διαστημοσυσκευές που κινούνται πέριξ του 'Αρη εδώ και χρόνια. Έτσι η NASA θα μπορεί να ξέρει μέσα σε μερικά λεπτά (και όχι σε μερικές ώρες) πώς πήγε η προσεδάφιση.
But beyond that, you definitely need to be patient. To find out if InSight solar panels have been developed, you will have to wait until 3:35 a.m. the next day and the first image may take up to a day to reach us.
InSight is a robotic geological laboratory designed to analyze earthquakes on Mars, its tectonic structure and the composition of its interior.