InSight Has Landed! Inside the Dramatic Touchdown

Touchdown on Mars
NASA’s InSight lander has endured almost seven months in space, traveling over 300 million miles in a strange but carefully calculated path from Earth to Mars. After it's lengthy journey, the probe has finally and successfully touched down on the martian surface.The InSight probe launched May 5 from the Vandenberg Air Force Base on California’s central coast. With a host of scientific instruments on board, the lander will study the Red Planet’s inter