A big day for small spacecraft: NASA's MarCO twins perform flawlessly at Mars
Monday, November 26, 2018 - 20:00
in Astronomy & Space
Nearly 100 million miles from Earth, an interplanetary experiment just went off without a hitch. As NASA’s InSight mission touched down on Mars Monday, two briefcase-sized companions relayed real-time data to Earth as the lander entered the Martian atmosphere, deployed its enormous parachute, and...