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    19 minutes ago

    LIVE NOW: We’re about to have our first in six years! The landing kicks off a two-year mission for the spacecraft to study Mars' deep interior. Tune in & watch live coverage now:

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    4 hours ago

    Are you ready for today's ? Here's a second-by-second rundown of ’s journey to the surface of Mars: Make sure you tune in for live coverage starting at 2pm ET: Today, we’re landing on !

    26 replies 550 retweets 1,468 likes
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    5 hours ago

    It's day for ! The spacecraft will have to flawlessly perform 1000s of steps in order to safely land on Mars. Watch & see how it plans to survive cutting through the atmosphere at breakneck speeds & temps hot enough to melt steel:

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    2 hours ago

    ❓ How do we get signals from during ? A pair of experimental small satellites will attempt to relay info in minutes. We’ll also rely on orbiting spacecraft for engineering data, which takes several hours to reach us. More:

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  5. 1 hour ago

    After launching in May and spending seven months cruising through space, we are counting down for the of the lander on the Red Planet. Tune in & watch live coverage starting at 2pm ET today:

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    1 hour ago

    Coming 🔜: 's lander is scheduled to land on Mars today. See the latest updates plus other space news and insights here. ⬇️

    24 replies 368 retweets 679 likes
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    4 hours ago

    It's Day! Today, our spacecraft blazes into the Mars atmosphere at 12,300 mph and slows to just 5 mph in less than 7 min., before gently touching down on the surface. Watch live starting at 2pm ET:

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  8. 3 hours ago

    Celebrating - today, InSight lands on the Red Planet to join our rovers and ! launched in May, NASA’s first mission to study Mars’ deep interior.

    This image shows NASA's InSight lander after it was commanded to deploy its solar arrays to test and verify the exact process that it will use on the surface of the Red Planet.
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    5 hours ago

    Today those little spacecraft feet touch down on Mars We’re streaming coverage from Mission Control on starting at 11am PT (2pm ET, 1900 UTC). Signal of touchdown expected no earlier than 54 minutes later.

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  10. 5 hours ago

    Celebrating , 2011, launched the MSL or Curiosity Rover to Mars. Here’s a selfie!

    This self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle on Vera Rubin Ridge.
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  11. Nov 24

    Celebrating , 2003, one of NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope’s first images was of Messier 81 (M81). launched Spitzer in August 2003. Learn more: ,

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  12. Nov 21

    Today 6th-8th graders at Humboldt High School in St. Paul, Minnesota learned about the mission from our flight design analyst, Caley Burke. Read more about InSight’s landing on this Monday afternoon:

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  13. Nov 21

    Celebrating , 2000, launched EO-1 to validate earth-observing technology. It gave us images for over 16 years. Learn more -

    Artist’s concept of EO-1, which demonstrated new technologies, provided Earth images, and tested new software allowing satellites to operate semi-autonomously.
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  14. Nov 20

    As prepares to land on the surface of Mars this Monday, we take a look back at the preparation of the spacecraft & subsequent launch of the , as we Countdown to T-Zero.

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  15. Nov 20

    ELaNa19 can't wait to meet the Electron rocket soon at LC-1.

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    The final stage test for our upcoming mission is complete (and what a thing of beauty!) Electron is now shipping to LC-1, ready for launch in December.
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  16. Nov 20

    Celebrating , 2004, launched SWIFT to study gamma-ray bursts, thought to be the birth cries of black holes. Learn more -

    A Boeing Delta II rocket fires its engines sending NASA's Swift satellite into orbit from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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    Nov 19

    Where I’m going there are no roads, so sometimes my team has to adjust my “steering wheel” a little. They just did that this past weekend with another trajectory correction maneuver. Right on target –- and onward to !

    18 replies 278 retweets 1,200 likes
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  18. Retweeted
    Nov 19

    This is it! Picked after a lengthy search, Jezero Crater on has many things we hope to explore by landing our rover there. In this crater, ancient water carved channels & transported sediments to form fans + deltas we want to learn about:

    79 replies 1,164 retweets 3,782 likes
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  19. Nov 18

    Celebrating , 2017, launched JPSS-1 (now called NOAA-20) for NOAA. It joined Suomi NPP in the same orbit. Learn more - ,

    The Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1) spacecraft is ready for launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. It is the first in a series of four next-generation environmental satellites in a collaborative program between NOAA and NASA.
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  20. Nov 18

    Celebrating , 2013, launched MAVEN to study the Red Planet’s upper atmosphere. Learn more -

    MAVEN launches toward Mars on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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