As NASA’s InSight mission lands on Mars, its companions sail onward
Today was a busy day for space exploration. Not only did NASA’s Insight probe make it down to the surface of Mars, but part of the support system for the mission took their first, and last, close up peek at the red planet.
In an earlier post on these pages, back in March 2018, I wrote about the two Cubesats that were going to tag along with Insight across interplanetary space. The Mars Cube One (MarCO) mission was part technology experiment and part support infrastructure for Insight itself.
