Put November 26 in your diary: That’s when Mars InSight lands. Hopefully

NASA’s successfully launched Mars InSight, the probe it hopes will help us to understand the interior of the Red Planet and therefore a little more about how rocky planets form. Mars InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) was supposed to be on Mars already, but missed its 2016 …

[Mike Henderson]

Landing, that's easy

Of course it'll land ... but softly and in one piece, that's the hard part

Good luck NASA

[ravenviz]

Re: Landing, that's easy

Indeed a feat!

[handleoclast]

Bad timing

They should have gone for a landing on Nov 5th. That way, if it went wrong, we'd have some fireworks.

[MT Field]

It's tricky to land on Mars, land on Mars, land on Mars

It's tricky to land on Mars, it's tricky tricky tricky.