Back From Mars
How does the Mars base communicate with Earth?
InSight's robotic arm will be used to snap photos of the ground and deploy instruments. NASA says the signals from the InSight lander indicate that its solar panels are open and collecting sunlight on the Martian surface. The first picture from InSight, taken with a fish-eye lens and through a dust cover, shows the planet's horizon. There's a quiet beauty here.
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Looking forward to exploring my new home. But tomorrow begins an exciting new chapter for InSight: InSight's twin solar arrays are each seven feet wide - when they are open, the entire lander is about the size of a big s convertible. But NASA says the lander does not need much to operate: In the coming days, NASA says the mission team will unstow InSight's robotic arm and use the attached camera to snap photos of the ground so that engineers can decide where to place the spacecraft's scientific instruments.
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It will take two to three months before those instruments are fully deployed and sending back data. In the meantime, InSight will use its weather sensors and magnetometer to take readings from its landing site at Elysium Planitia - its new home on Mars. The first picture from InSight, taken with a fish-eye lens and through a dust cover, shows the planet's horizon, which NASA said suggests the landing was a success.
Congratulations flooded into the space agency following the success, including from Mike Pence, the US vice president, who celebrated the "incredible milestone" of the country's eighth successful landing on Mars. An exuberant handshake by mission control staff was caught on camera and has gone viral on social media. The UK Space Agency also tweeted its celebration and noted that a British-made instrument was on board.
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A seismometer - which will "listen" for tremors - was designed by a team at Imperial College London. It is so sensitive that when the engineers tested it at a lab in Oxford they were able to detect the vibrations from church bells being rung on a Sunday morning. If the instrument establishes that Mars has the remains of a liquid core it will suggest the planet once had a magnetic field that could have shielded early life - before dramatically and mysteriously weakening.
There are significant mysteries here, because while both Mars and the Earth were formed from the same stuff more than 4.
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NASA scientists have seen a lot of evidence that Mars has quakes - known as marsquakes. Unlike Earth, where quakes are caused by tectonic plates, Mars has very quiet tectonic processes.
This means marsquakes are more likely to be caused by other forms of tectonic activity, including volcanism and cracks forming in the planet's crust. NASA missions have established that billions of years ago the planet was warmer and wetter, more conducive conditions for life. In , it will land another rover in an ancient lake bed to directly look for evidence of microbes, dead or alive.