“landing confirmed” it sounded from the loudspeakers in the control center, in Pasadena California and all in dark red shirts, dressed, scientists at the US space Agency, Nasa, broke out in Clapping, cheering, hugs and tears of joy. Six years after the last Mission to Mars, Nasa brought again successfully a robot on Mars. After a 485-million-Kilometer-long trip in may, launched Lander “InSight” on Monday in the plain of Elysium Planitia just North the Martian Equator on the red planet.

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This NASA supplied photograph of the Nasa-robot “InSight” made by using one of his Arm-mounted camera

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“What a wonderful day for Nasa,” said the chief of the U.S. space Agency, Jim bride Stine, who was in the control center. “It was so intense, you could feel the emotions.” Only seconds after landing, I congratulated him, US Vice-President Mike Pence by phone. Via short message service Twitter, Pence praised the landing as “an incredible milestone”.

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The robot sent, meanwhile, is already a first photo, a piece of the surface of the planet, and the horizon to see – and quite a lot of dust on the lens. If “InSight” (“Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport”) is fully operational, it will provide in the coming days.

With a workforce of 19,800 kilometers per hour in the Martian atmosphere

In an extremely complicated maneuver, the robot had been lowered after the entry into the Mars atmosphere, braking rockets, and a parachute. “We are hit with a speed of 19,800 kilometers per hour on the Martian atmosphere and the whole sequence up to the landing, then took only six and a half minutes,” said Nasa Manager Tom Hoffman. “During this short period of time, InSight had to make “” independently dozens of actions and the flawlessly – and it seems to be exactly what happens.”

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the first photo shows a piece of the Tempobet surface of the planet, and the horizon – and quite a lot of dust on the lens.

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The 360-kilogram robot can not roll, but stays in one place. The country place is located in a Region that is largely flat and free of larger stones and rocks. Previous Mars missions have not explored the area from the ground.

With numerous scientific instruments of the robot to investigate Mars and especially more about the structure of the planet and the dynamics of its surface. Once the Lander is secure, is to begin in the immediate environment, the search for suitable locations for the measurement devices. A robotic arm will lift to the optimum Position.

Mars mole to drill into the ground to drill

A German-developed device, a kind of Mars mole, in the ground. The robot with the official name of HP3 (“Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package”) was developed by the German centre for air and space travel (DLR). The 40-centimeter-long, tapered device will penetrate to a depth of five metres, and the heat flow measure. “The landing was exciting, but now I am looking forward to Drilling,” said Nasa researcher Bruce Banerdt. The total of around 650 million Euro “InSight”Mission is set to last for two years.

Recently, Nasa of 2012 had brought the Rover “Curiosity” successfully on Mars. With “InSight” brought Nasa’s now already for the eighth Time a robot successfully on Mars. Landings on the red planet are considered to be extremely difficult – only about 40 percent of the world has so far launched Mars missions were successful. In 2016, about the probe, “Schiaparelli”, the European space Agency, Esa, had crashed due to a computer error during the landing approach.