Update: WE HAVE LANDED!
Watching the landing attempt of the new InSight rover on Mars. NASA really did an outstanding job, I can’t understand how one can plan and execute such a project. Now we just watch. The link includes interesting 3D videos of what is happening and what will happen.
I think it’s clear to everyone that this isn’t just some remote-controlled model, but a system with autonomous decision-making capabilities on what actions to take in various situations. Currently, the rover is 90 million km away from us. Thus, a signal takes 11 minutes to get there, and the same amount of time to return. You can’t anticipate everything: out of 17 missions, ten were unsuccessful. The cartoon at the link above shows how complex it all is.
Live broadcast – it’s been at least three hours already:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwMDvPCGeE0
30 minutes left
https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/
Fingers crossed
Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 