FOSTER: After six months of travel and seven minutes of terror, and masters inside spacecraft has landed on Mars. The pro's mission is to study the red planet's interior. Michael Holmes, shows us insights incredible journey to get there and what we could expect to learn from it.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Touchdown confirmed.</s>MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN NEWSROOM HOST: A huge cheer and a collective sigh of relief from NASA scientists who for six and half nail biting minutes didn't know if their mission would end in triumph or failure. The robotic lander called insight successfully landed on Mars after battling through the atmosphere at a precise angle of 12 degrees and speeds of nearly 20,000 kilometers an hour. Insights got to work right away once on the ground, beaming back this first image of the view of the planet's surface.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We actually have a little bit of science already thanks to our friends at Marco who sent down this first image. It is nice and dirty. Nice dirty image. So, we see -- we see the surface of Mars.</s>HOLMES: The moment was six months in the making. The time it took for the spacecraft to journey through space to Mars. Now with the drama passed the mission of Mars begins to uncover the secrets of the red planet that may be held beneath its surface.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We look at the crust of mars and that is a snapshot into the past of what the crust of the earth may have looked like four and half billion years ago before it got all busy.</s>HOLMES: Insight will attempt to find out how Mars evolved by monitoring seismic activity, including so called Mars quakes and meteor strikes as well. And it will also drill underground to glean more information about the origins of the planet's rocky surface. Unlike its predecessor, the Curiosity Probe that landed in 2012, Insight won't rove around the planet, but will stay put through to its name, looking downward and digging deep for answers about Mars. Michael Holmes, CNN.</s>FOSTER: Thanks for joining us. I'm Max Foster. The news continues with Kristi Lu Stout in Hong Kong, up next after this break. You're watching CNN.
Insight spacecraft lands on Mars; Insight will study the interior of Mars.