InSight: Nasa's Mars mission on target for landing
Tehran (KNA) - The American space agency Nasa says its InSight Mars lander is on a near-perfect Thanksgiving trajectory.
The probe is due to touch down on Monday at 19:53 GMT, to begin its quest to map the Red Planet's interior.
Engineers can take the opportunity for one last course correction on Sunday to tighten the line to the bulls-eye - but they may not bother with it.
"Right now we're looking really good, and we might be able to skip it," said Nasa's Tom Hoffman.
"We'll be working on the final parameters we need over the next few days, so while everybody's off having turkey, there'll be a bunch of people at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) making sure we land successfully," the InSight project manager told reporters.
JPL in Pasadena, California, is mission control for all Nasa's planetary adventures.
Source:BBC