Mars lander sets quake monitor on planet’s red surface

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s new Mars lander has placed a quake monitor on the planet’s dusty red surface.
The milestone occurred less than a month after Mars InSight’s touchdown.
InSight’s robotic arm removed the seismometer from the spacecraft deck and set it on the ground Wednesday to monitor Mars quakes.
Project manager Tom Hoffman calls it “an awesome Christmas present.”
It’s the first time a robotic arm has lowered an experiment onto th