Hola amigos: A VUELO DE UN QUINDE EL BLOG., ya nos habíamos alejado de los programas espaciales, pero como se ha enviado la Nave InSight, al Planeta Rojo, cuyo misión es estudiar el interior del planeta y conocer su estructura de casi unos 4,500 millones de existencia, que viene a ser un ex planeta del al lado, la nave recorrerá unos 225 millones de kilómetros para llegar a Marte, que permitirá obtener conocimientos profundos para las próximas misiones tripuladas con naves con entusiastas astronautas, programadas por la NASA, ESA y China, en la década del 2030.
El exitoso lanzamiento, que NASA, dice: " A bordo del mismo cohete viaja un experimento de tecnología de la NASA separado conocido como Mars Cube One (MarCO). MarCO consiste en dos mini naves espaciales y será la primera prueba de la tecnología CubeSat en el espacio profundo. Están diseñados para probar nuevas capacidades de comunicación y navegación para futuras misiones y pueden ayudar a las comunicaciones de InSight.
La misión InSight, un módulo de aterrizaje estacionario, será la primera misión dedicada a explorar el profundo interior de Marte. También será la primera misión de la NASA desde los aterrizajes lunares del Apolo en colocar un sismómetro, un dispositivo que mide los terremotos, en el suelo de otro planeta..."
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California (11:05 GMT), despegaba InSight a bordo de un cohete Atlas V de United Launch Alliance desde el Complejo-3 de Lanzamiento Espacial en la Base Aérea Vandenberg en California. Por delante le quedan seis meses de viaje hasta su llegada al Planeta Rojo.
A bordo del mismo cohete viaja un experimento de tecnología de la NASA separado conocido como Mars Cube One (MarCO). MarCO consiste en dos mini naves espaciales y será la primera prueba de la tecnología CubeSat en el espacio profundo. Están diseñados para probar nuevas capacidades de comunicación y navegación para futuras misiones y pueden ayudar a las comunicaciones de InSight.
La misión InSight, un módulo de aterrizaje estacionario, será la primera misión dedicada a explorar el profundo interior de Marte. También será la primera misión de la NASA desde los aterrizajes lunares del Apolo en colocar un sismómetro, un dispositivo que mide los terremotos, en el suelo de otro planeta
"De alguna manera, InSight es como una máquina del tiempo científica que traerá información sobre las primeras etapas de la formación de Marte hace 4.500 millones de años", dijo Bruce Banerdt del JPL, investigador principal de InSight. "Nos ayudará a comprender cómo se forman los cuerpos rocosos, incluida la Tierra, su luna e incluso planetas en otros sistemas solares".
InSight lleva consigo un conjunto de instrumentos sensibles para recopilar datos y, a diferencia de una misión móvil, estos instrumentos requieren un módulo de aterrizaje fijo desde el que puedan colocarse con cuidado sobre y debajo de la superficie marciana.
En cierto sentido, Marte es el exoplaneta de al lado, un ejemplo cercano de cómo el gas, el polvo y el calor se combinan y se organizan en un planeta. Mirar hacia el interior de Marte permitirá que los científicos comprendan cuán diferentes son la corteza, el manto y el núcleo de la Tierra.
La NASA no es la única agencia entusiasmada con la misión. Varios socios europeos aportaron instrumentos o componentes de instrumentos a la misión InSight. El Centro Nacional de Estudios Espaciales de Francia dirigió un equipo multinacional que construyó un sismómetro ultrasensible para detectar movimientos sísmicos en Marte. El Centro Aeroespacial Alemán (DLR) desarrolló una sonda térmica que puede enterrarse hasta 5 metros bajo tierra y medir el calor que fluye desde el interior del planeta.
"InSight es una misión espacial verdaderamente internacional", dijo Tom Hoffman, gerente de proyectos de JPL. "Nuestros socios han entregado instrumentos increíblemente capaces que permitirán reunir ciencia única después de aterrizar".
Concepto artístico de la misión InSight trabajando en Marte. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
InSight Mars Mission Lifts Off From Vandenberg Air Force Base
The NASA InSight spacecraft launches onboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas-V rocket, Saturday, May 5, 2018, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to study the "inner space" of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core.
News release: NASA, ULA Launch Mission to Study How Mars Was Made
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News release: NASA, ULA Launch Mission to Study How Mars Was Made
Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Last Updated: May 5, 2018
Editor: Sarah Loff
NASA, ULA Launch Mission to Study How Mars Was Made
NASA’s Mars Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission is the first interplanetary launch from the West Coast of the U.S. After its six-month journey, InSight will descend to Mars to study the heart of the Red Planet.
Credits: NASA
NASA’s Mars Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission is on a 300-million-mile trip to Mars to study for the first time what lies deep beneath the surface of the Red Planet. InSight launched at 7:05 a.m. EDT (4:05 am PDT) Saturday from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
“The United States continues to lead the way to Mars with this next exciting mission to study the Red Planet’s core and geological processes,” said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. “I want to congratulate all the teams from NASA and our international partners who made this accomplishment possible. As we continue to gain momentum in our work to send astronauts back to the Moon and on to Mars, missions like InSight are going to prove invaluable.”
First reports indicate the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket that carried InSight into space was seen as far south as Carlsbad, California, and as far east as Oracle, Arizona. One person recorded video of the launch from a private aircraft flying along the California coast.
Riding the Centaur second stage of the rocket, the spacecraft reached orbit 13 minutes and 16 seconds after launch. Seventy-nine minutes later, the Centaur ignited a second time, sending InSight on a trajectory towards the Red Planet. InSight separated from the Centaur about 9 minutes later – 93 minutes after launch – and contacted the spacecraft via NASA’s Deep Space Network at 8:41 a.m. EDT (5:41 PDT).
InSight is on a 300-million-mile trip to Mars to study for the first time what lies deep beneath the surface of the Red Planet.
Credits: NASA
“The Kennedy Space Center and ULA teams gave us a great ride today and started InSight on our six-and-a-half-month journey to Mars,” said Tom Hoffman, InSight project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. “We’ve received positive indication the InSight spacecraft is in good health and we are all excited to be going to Mars once again to do groundbreaking science.”
With its successful launch, NASA’s InSight team now is focusing on the six-month voyage. During the cruise phase of the mission, engineers will check out the spacecraft’s subsystems and science instruments, making sure its solar arrays and antenna are oriented properly, tracking its trajectory and performing maneuvers to keep it on course.
InSight is scheduled to land on the Red Planet around 3 p.m. EST Nov. 26, where it will conduct science operations until Nov. 24, 2020, which equates to one year and 40 days on Mars, or nearly two Earth years.
“Scientists have been dreaming about doing seismology on Mars for years. In my case, I had that dream 40 years ago as a graduate student, and now that shared dream has been lofted through the clouds and into reality,” said Bruce Banerdt, InSight principal investigator at JPL.
The InSight lander will probe and collect data on marsquakes, heat flow from the planet’s interior and the way the planet wobbles, to help scientists understand what makes Mars tick and the processes that shaped the four rocky planets of our inner solar system.
“InSight will not only teach us about Mars, it will enhance our understanding of formation of other rocky worlds like Earth and the Moon, and thousands of planets around other stars,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate at the agency headquarters in Washington. "InSight connects science and technology with a diverse team of JPL-led international and commercial partners."
Previous missions to Mars investigated the surface history of the Red Planet by examining features like canyons, volcanoes, rocks and soil, but no one has attempted to investigate the planet's earliest evolution, which can only be found by looking far below the surface.
“InSight will help us unlock the mysteries of Mars in a new way, by not just studying the surface of the planet, but by looking deep inside to help us learn about the earliest building blocks of the planet,” said JPL Director Michael Watkins.
JPL manages InSight for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. InSight is part of NASA's Discovery Program, managed by the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The InSight spacecraft, including cruise stage and lander, was built and tested by Lockheed Martin Space in Denver. NASA's Launch Services Program at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is responsible for launch service acquisition, integration, analysis, and launch management. United Launch Alliance of Centennial, Colorado, is NASA's launch service provider.
A number of European partners, including France's Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), are supporting the InSight mission. CNES provided the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument, with significant contributions from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Göttingen, Germany. DLR provided the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3) instrument.
Go, Atlas. Go, Centaur. Go, InSight! NASA's InSight mission launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base for Mars on May 5, 2018—the first interplanetary launch from the West Coast. InSight is expected to land on the Red Planet on Nov. 26, 2018. More than a mission to Mars, InSight will help scientists understand the formation and early evolution of all rocky planets, including Earth.
Credits: NASA/JPL-CalTech
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Last Updated: May 5, 2018
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