Mars Insight - Digging Into The Martian Interior

Mars Insight is landing today, hopefully in the same number of pieces the engineers designed!
Mars Insight is a lander rather than a rover because its two main experiments are supposed to stay in one place and will take months to collect the data on the Martian interior that planetologists have been unable to get from previous missions.

[PaulPaulPaulson]

Wouldn't hammering the ground attract sandworms?

[TimPeterson]

Is it still "reentry" when it didn't launch from Mars?

[TommoCarroll]

Yes! I'm loving all this Mars Insight talk on the internet! Can't wait for the onslaught of news about it in a few hours!

[who-caresz]

Update: After two years, it still hasn't dug the hole properly. The composition of martian soil in that area is really bad for drilling apparently. It keeps stalling.

[john_p]

8Kb per second? thats faster than Australian internet!

[rayceeya]

Ahhh those little cube-sats are so cute. They're like little puppy satellites. I want to give them a scritch.

[thenotflatearth]

Hopefully the lens cover comes off and unit conversion all goes well

[chopinbloc]

0:49
How could they pass up the *opportunity* to call them "Marco" and "Polo"?

[jjbudinski]

Scott, you are one of those people with the rare ability to convey science and engineering in an amazing and easy to digest way, love the videos!

[fiercemonkey]

Thank you Scott for the real space news giving true indepth coverage of the topic and not some topical glossing over. Your the best space channel out there and please keep on making these videos. Fly safe sir. o7

[BrianKelsay]

Would be cool to have you come back and link these to the updates or add a comment to update how they performed.

[veteran]

Hoping for the best. Somebody should remind NASA to press f5 before hitting the atmosphere.

[LordGryllwotth]

The antenna on the cube sats are something I want to know more about. Its a flat antenna acting as a parabolic antenna! It's insane.

[theCodyReeder]

Question: Are they going to send down the very seismically noisy mole before or after they start collecting data from the Areophone?

[predur]

It will be a bit silly, but when there are missions like that I feel excited like a child on Christmas morning, especially now that everything went well ... they flew safely

[JaceCavacini]

Thanks for this digestible primer on Mars Insight. I hadn’t even heard about it until the day it landed.

[catalinacurio]

So fascinating! Thank you for sharing this. 👍😊🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[bikeridernz]

Another superb informative session Scott. Look forward to many more.

[RadicalEdward]

the two satelites marco A and Marco B... they missed the chance to call one Marco and the other Polo

[rami]

Loving this insight Mars mission! Can't wait to hear the news about how the landing went