Applause and shouts of joy exploded from mission control members Nov. 26 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. They were celebrating the payoff from years of work – the touchdown of InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport mission) on Martian soil after a seven-month…
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Forget Mars: Let’s Go To Venus
Since the end of the Apollo missions that put men on the moon, the people of the United States have had their eyes on what seems like the next logical step: Mars, the Red Planet. Several proposals have been put forward—none of them, obviously, seeing implementation as of yet—and still…
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