Only 40% of missions to the red planet have succeeded but if all goes well the spacecraft is expected to touch down just before 3pm ET (8pm GMT)
Here’s a natty little explainer on what InSight will be getting up to on Mars. It’ll be a combination of prodding, probing, and recording.
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Hello and welcome to live coverage of the Nasa Mars landing.
We’re expecting InSight, a spacecraft designed to collect information on the makeup of Mars, to land at about 3pm US ET (8pm GMT).
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