InSight lander prepares to touch down on Mars
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Channel: AP Archive · 2018 · News & Politics
(20 Nov 2018) US MARS LANDER SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS/NASA RESTRICTIONS: AP CLIENTS ONLY LENGTH: 5:17 NASA TV - AP CLIENTS ONLY Vandenberg Air Force Base, California - 5 May 2018 1. Wide of InSight launch with NATSOUND NASA - MUST CREDIT NASA 2. Animation, showing InSight landing on Mars ++MUTE++ ASSOCIATED PRESS Pasadena, California - 14 November 2018 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Julie Wertz Chen, InSight Engineer: "And then, once we've entered the atmosphere, the drag in the atmosphere slows us down, heats us up, and the heat shield protects us during that time. Once we've gotten down to a low enough speed, we'll deploy a parachute, the parachute will slow us down even more. We'll get rid of that heat shield, that lets us deploy our lander legs, turn on our radar. At that point, we can separate from the parachute and we propulsively fire our thrusters to slow us down even further and then we land directly on our legs right onto the surface of Mars." 4. Various of Jet Propulsion Lab control room 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ravi Pakrash, InSight Engineer: "InSight is the first mission that's going to study the deep interior of Mars. So, what we've done in the past is send rovers and landers that really explore the geology of Mars, the chemistry of the surface, what kind of rocks are there. We're going to explore the deep interior and try to understand how active are the quakes on Mars - we call them Mars quakes, not earthquakes - and then we're also sending a probe that's going to drill into Mars about 10 to 15 feet and it's going to understand the heat that flows from the core of Mars. And so, all this information will help us understand is there a liquid core, a solid core? How did Mars form as a planet? And this will help us understand how Earth as well as any rocky planet in our universe formed." 6. Various of Pakrash examining lander model 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ravi Pakrash, InSight Engineer: "So, I'm what you call a systems engineer, so I think big picture. There's a lot of experts that are really into one specific part of the spacecraft and I take a step back and I say; 'Okay, how do all the pieces fit together and let's make sure that they're all going to work once we're on the surface of Mars.'" 8. Wide of Pakrash and lander model 9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ravi Pakrash, InSight Engineer: "Once the spacecraft lands, that's when a lot of us who have been working on what we call the surface mission take over. And so, we want to make sure that the spacecraft is healthy on the first few days after landing. So, are we getting enough energy from the sun? Did everything survive that big long journey from Earth? And then we want to start deploying our instruments on Mars. So that's a pretty involved process that involves taking lots of images, doing lots of checkouts and then the arm that you see behind me, this is going to pick up the instruments that are on top of the lander and then put them on the surface of Mars exactly where we want it to be." NASA - MUST CREDIT NASA 10. Animation, showing InSight on Mars ++MUTE++ ASSOCIATED PRESS Pasadena, California - 14 November 2018 11. Wide of NASA JPL engineers posing for group photo in control room 12. SOUNDBITE (English) Ravi Pakrash, InSight Engineer: NASA - AP CLIENTS ONLY Pasadena, California - Date not given 13. Various of Pakrash before shaving ASSOCIATED PRESS Pasadena, California - 14 November 2018 14. SOUNDBITE (English) Julie Wertz Chen, InSight Engineer: NASA - AP CLIENTS ONLY Pasadena, California - 24 September 2015 15. STILL of "lucky" peanuts LEADIN: STORYLINE: InSight Engineer Ravi Pakrash says: ==== Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/a7a67da37c1d38e563324cb2fd543885
