What will NASA's InSight do on Mars?

The InSight mission will hopefully land on Mars on the 26th November. But how will it land, and what will it actually do while on Mars?

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[astrumspace]

Surprise! I made an extra video this week in time for the InSight mission. This is one of my first attempts at a time-relevant video. Let me know what you think! EDIT: Sorry everyone, it's 1, 500c, not 15, 000c. That's my british brain not really processing the american way of saying fifteen hundred... we would say one thousand five hundred. I had a brain fart.

[ramsoncole]

Mars is the only planet that we know of that is inhabited entirely by robots.

[SKEC]

I appreciate how you quietly ask for donations. There are a lot of channels out there that over emphasize their patreon accounts to the point that it feels like aggressive begging. Good video. Well narrated. And, I like how it sounded like you were talking to us, not reading from a page like people did back in primary school when they would read out loud in class or the way a first grade teacher would sound reading a book to a class of young children. That drives me nuts. I won't listen to those people's videos. Thank you for talking normal.

[sakracliche]

...will be touching on Mars on 26th November...

I was like OMG THATS TODAY

I searched the stream and it was starting in 1 minute and 20 seconds, thank you so much for this video

[gelgamath_]

I like how you're able to cover in 8 minutes 35 second what NASA/JPL took 1 hour and 49 minutes to cover without skipping anything important

[noahg]

Who’s here after it successfully landed Monday?

[mdhbigdog]

I'm happy that it landed successfully on Mars. This video gave me a great explanation of all of the engineering that went into the design and operations of the InSight. Amazing!

[-MLE]

Great video. Well presented very factual amazing production and the voiceover man isn’t annoying like most channels
Keep up the good work

[vdiitd]

They should have named the cubesats as Marco and Polo instead of A and B😅

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[Bloodline]

InSight has landed successfully! Amazing news! Can't wait to see what the beating heart of Mars looks like.

[drewdegen]

What an elegant probe! I love the fanning solar array design and the impact device.

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[Chris.Davies]

I can almost never fault anything you say, but I caught you out this time! :)

1:47 - sorry - but no. The heat shield does what the name of the heat shield says it does! It does NOT really absorb heat, it deflects the plasma created close to the surface, around the outside of the shield. The vast majority of heat generated goes around the craft. The tiny parts of the shield which do absorb a tiny amount of the total heat generated by atmospheric entry are ablated into space, carrying heat with them as they go.
So yeah, a heat shield is a heat shield, not a heat sink, as you have stated. The two are very different things, used for very different purposes.
Thanks for all your wonderful videos. Make more, please!

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[commenturthegreat]

1:30 "Firstly"? Man, now that I know this word exists I will use it EVERYWHERE!

[EtaCarinaeSC]

I don't know what NASA's InSight will do on mars, but will get some insight right now.

[Azivegu]

I love curiosity and all the other rovers, but this one really does excite me. Maybe because I studied geology, but I feel that this mission has the potential to teach us more of Mars and all the other planets (including Earth) than all the other mars missions combined. There are so many questions and I hope so badly that this only creates even more.

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[rvnmedic]

Excellent explanation and great graphics! Look forward to more.