The global dust storm currently raging on Mars shouldn't disrupt the touchdown of NASA's InSight lander this fall, agency officials said.
The planet-encircling storm is expected to subside by the time InSight arrives in November. But it won't be a disaster for the new lander if the storm still swirls or if another one takes its place, officials said.
Fascinating. All of it, the implications of every sentence.
E: Many forget -
When NASA's Mariner 9 spacecraft reached Mars in November 1971...
We had several crafts land on Mars in the 1970s.
> The global dust storm currently raging on Mars shouldn't disrupt the touchdown of NASA's InSight lander this fall, agency officials said.
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> The planet-encircling storm is expected to subside by the time InSight arrives in November. But it won't be a disaster for the new lander if the storm still swirls or if another one takes its place, officials said.
Fascinating. All of it, the implications of every sentence.
E: Many forget -
> When NASA's Mariner 9 spacecraft reached Mars in November 1971...
We had several crafts land on Mars in the 1970s.
Fascinating. All of it, the implications of every sentence.
E: Many forget -
We had several crafts land on Mars in the 1970s.