NASA spacecraft lands on Mars

"Touchdown confirmed," a mission control operator said as cheers erupted and scientists leapt from their seats to hug each other at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Just minutes after landing, InSight sent its first picture from the surface of the Red Planet. 

Mars Insight's goal is to listen for quakes and tremors as a way to unveil the Red Planet's inner mysteries, how it formed billions of years ago, and by extension, how other rocky planets like Earth took shape. The spacecraft will spend 24 months on the planet.

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