Another NASA Mars Lander Getting Ready for 12,000 mph Landing on Elysium Planitia

“There’s a reason engineers call landing on Mars ‘seven minutes of terror.’ We can’t joystick the landing, so we have to rely on the commands we pre-program into the spacecraft.” — Rob Grover, Lead for InSIGHT’s entry, descent and landing (EDL),  NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA “Previous missions haven’t gone more than skin-deep at Mars. InSIGHT …

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