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Anxiety abounds at NASA as Mars landing day arrives

A NASA spacecraft's six-month journey to Mars neared its dramatic grand finale Monday in what scientists and engineers hoped would be a soft precision landing on flat red plains.

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PASADENA, Calif. — NASA's newest Mars robot has already captured a photo of its rusty, dusty home.



The Insight Lander touched down on the Red Planet yesterday (Nov. 26) just before 3 p.m. EST (2000 GMT) and beamed home its first image from the surface mere minutes later.

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First NASA's Viking 1 lander made it down to the surface, followed a couple of weeks later by Viking 2 on August 7th. In the meantime the Viking 1 and 2 orbiters set up shop high above the planet.

Both landers were equipped with what were, at the time, pretty special cameras. These used a mirror to 'scan' a vertical slice of the terrain, digitizing the light with a photodetector. By rotating the mirror slightly and taking another vertical scan an image was slowly built up and transmitted back to Earth.

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This artist's illustration obtained from NASA shows the New Horizons spacecraft encountering
2014 MU69- nicknamed "Ultima Thule" – a Kuiper Belt object that orbits one billion miles beyond Pluto.

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On July 20, 1969, humans walked on another world for the first time in history, achieving the goal that President John F. Kennedy had set in 1961, before Americans had even orbited the Earth. After a landing that included dodging a lunar crater and boulder field just before touchdown, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin explored the area around their lunar landing site for more than two hours.

When the lunar module landed at 4:17 p.m EDT, only 30 seconds of fuel remained. Armstrong radioed "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." Mission control erupted in celebration as the tension breaks, and a controller tells the crew "You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue, we're breathing again."

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