Discover Magazine Subscriptions
|
|
|||
|
|
|
Subscribe to Wired magazine in Pakistan
|
|
Pakistan's premier website that covers current affairs and news.
MIT Technology Review Subscription in Pakistan
Time magazine home delivery in Pakistan
Mars InSight mission: What Nasa's trip to Red Planet aims to discover
Nasa has touched down on Mars for the first time in six years in a mission designed to mine more information about the Red Planet.
(Best Current Affairs Magazine in Pakistan)
In an extremely tricky landing, the lander slowed down from 12,300mph to 5mph, the equivalent of human jogging speed, in just seven minutes after hitting Mars's atmosphere.
The mission follows in the footsteps of the Curiosity rover, which landed there in 2012, but the $1bn joint US-European mission will break new ground - literally and metaphorically.
Here's what you need to know about the landmark mission.
Curiosity has been moving around Mars, scouring different areas. InSight, however, will be staying in one place for its two-year mission.
InSight is short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport. As its lengthy name suggests, its objective is to dig into the planet's interior.
On the surface of Mars, its 6-foot (1.8-meter) arm will remove the two main science experiments from the lander's deck and place them directly on the Martian surface. This is already uncharted territory in space exploration.
Mind-reading AI may spell end to humanity
Human Mind is defeated... at last!
Dark Net: the dark side of internet
Subscribe to the New Scientist magazine in Pakistan
Share your views at feedback@newsflash.com.pk
Send your contributions at editor@newsflash.com.pk