NASA’s InSight lands on Mars-It aims to unveil the Red Planet’s inner mysteries, such as its formation

• NASA’s Mars rover InSight touched down on the Red planet, capping a nearly seven-year journey from design to launch to landing.
• The dramatic arrival of the $993 million spacecraft — designed to unveil the Red Planet's inner mysteries, how it formed billions of years ago and, by extension, how other rocky planets like the earth took shape — marked the eighth successful landing on Mars in NASA's history.
• The spacecraft is NASA’s first to touch down on the earth’s neighbouring planet since the Curiosity rover arrived in 2012.
• More than half of 43 attempts to reach Mars with rovers, orbiters and probes by space agencies from around the world have failed.
• NASA is the only space agency to have made it.

The Hindu