NASA’s Langley Research Center entry, descent and landing experts are available for local media interviews now through Nov. 26.
NASA’s Mars Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission will land on the Red Planet at approximately 3 p.m. EST (noon PST) Monday, Nov. 26.
Engineers at Langley provide the only complete modeling and computer simulations of how InSight will fly through the Mars atmosphere and land. These simulations generate the important “landing footprint,” and the results will be used by the InSight entry, descent and landing (EDL) team led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, along with Lockheed Martin Space and NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.
InSight will study the deep interior of Mars to learn how all celestial bodies with rocky surfaces, including Earth and the Moon, formed. The lander’s instruments include a seismometer to detect marsquakes and a probe to monitor the flow of heat in the planet’s subsurface.
NASA TV will be broadcast live coverage of the landing between 2:00 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. EST.
To schedule a local interview, contact Kristyn Damadeo, 757-864-1090, kristyn.damadeo@nasa.gov
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Kristyn Damadeo
Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia
757-864-1090
kristyn.damadeo@nasa.gov