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The Mars Report
May 24, 2018

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InSight

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from Vandenberg Air Force Base
on May 5, 2018.

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[rocket roars]

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InSight is the first
interplanetary mission

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to launch from the West Coast.

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The spacecraft will reach Mars
on November 26, 2018

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and begin its study of the Red
Planet's interior.

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MarCO

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rode along with InSight.

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The first image from
one of the CubeSats

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shows its unfolded
high-gain antenna...

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...and the Earth and its Moon.

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They have already gone farther

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than any CubeSats
have gone before...

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If they make it to Mars,

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they'll attempt to transmit data
from InSight as it lands.

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Mars 2020 Helicopter

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NASA's Mars 2020 mission
will carry a stowaway -

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a small, autonomous helicopter.

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Designing a helicopter for
Mars' thin atmosphere

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was a significant
engineering challenge...

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...but recent testing in
a vacuum chamber

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showed the impossible
had become possible.

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It weighs just under 4 pounds
(1.8 kilograms)

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and has counter-rotating blades

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that move 10 times the rate of
helicopters on Earth.

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Curiosity Rover

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NASA's Curiosity rover drilled
through Mars' surface

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to produce the first rock sample
in over a year.

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Engineers have been
working to restore

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the rover's drill
since December 2016.

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Using a new percussive
drilling technique

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Curiosity bored a hole
about 2 inches deep.

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Now engineers will work on
getting the samples

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from the drill bit to the two
laboratories inside the rover.

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For more information on
all our Mars missions:

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https://mars.nasa.gov

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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory