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NASA spacecraft lands on Mars

By Photos by Associated Press

Nov. 26, 2018

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A NASA spacecraft designed to burrow beneath the surface of Mars landed on the red planet Monday after a six-month, 300 million-mile journey and a perilous, six-minute descent through the rose-hued atmosphere
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Computer monitors at the Lewis Center in Apple Valley, Calif., display the NASA's mission control broadcast of the InSight Lander's touch down on Mars on Monday.
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Talon Ebmeyer, center and other visitors at the Lewis Center in Apple Valley, Calif., watch NASA's InSight Lander touch down on Mars on Monday.
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Linda Morabito and visitors and students at the Lewis Center in Apple Valley, Calif., cheer as NASA's InSight Lander touched down on Mars on Monday.
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Talon Ebmeyer, center and other visitors at the Lewis Center inApple Valley, Calif., watch NASA's InSight Lander touch down on Mars on Monday.
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Julie Wertz-Chen, Entry, Descent and Landing systems engineer, NASA JPL, left, Aline Zimmer, Systems Engineer, NASA JPL, center, and Christine Szalai, Technical Group Supervisor, Mission Commentator, NASA JPL, all react after receiving confirmation that the Mars InSight lander successfully touched down on the surface of Mars, on Monday, inside the Mission Support Area at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to study the "inner space" of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core.
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An engineer smiles next to an image of Mars sent from the InSight lander shortly after it landed on Mars in the mission support area of the space flight operation facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Monday in Pasadena, Calif.
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Engineers embrace after the Mars landing of InSight in the mission support area of the space flight operation facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Monday in Pasadena, Calif.
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InSight project manager Tom Hoffman points at an image sent from the InSight lander after the space craft landed on Mars in the mission support area of the space flight operation facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Monday in Pasadena, Calif.
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Engineers celebrate as the InSight lander touch downs on Mars in the mission support area of the space flight operation facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Monday in Pasadena, Calif.
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Engineers Kris Bruvold, left, and Sandy Krasner celebrate as the InSight lander touch downs on Mars in the mission support area of the space flight operation facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, on Monday, in Pasadena, Calif.
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A image transmitted from Mars by the InSight lander is seen on a computer screen at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Monday in Pasadena, Calif.
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People at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., celebrate as the InSight lander touches down on Mars on Monday.
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Monitors show the status of NASA's Deep Space Network ahead of the Mars InSight landing, on Monday, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to study the "inner space" of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core.
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