Today’s smashingly successful touchdown of NASA’s InSight lander on Mars was a cause for celebration on Twitter.
There was good-natured snark from SarcasticRover and from Matthew Inman, the Seattle cartoonist behind The Oatmeal (following up on his terrific preview of the landing). And there were heartfelt congratulations from the space community’s celebrities, including SpaceX founder Elon Musk and Bill Nye the Science Guy.
Here are just a few of the tweeted highlights:
https://twitter.com/SarcasticRover/status/1067154501457465344
https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity/status/1067144758043136002
https://twitter.com/Oatmeal/status/1067146924879302659
https://twitter.com/Oatmeal/status/1067147322067365888
https://twitter.com/Oatmeal/status/1067147582302912512
https://twitter.com/Oatmeal/status/1067184910199181312
https://twitter.com/BillNye/status/1067147573297852416
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1067163214448779264
https://twitter.com/Space_Station/status/1067189776334417921
https://twitter.com/StationCDRKelly/status/1067149380292145153
https://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/status/1067156381470547968
https://twitter.com/VP/status/1067180094727294977
https://twitter.com/Nasdaq/status/1067177094050967555
https://twitter.com/TimesSquareNYC/status/1067155023031881728
https://twitter.com/museumofflight/status/1067145537411932160
https://twitter.com/GovInslee/status/1067177489716338694
https://twitter.com/AerojetRdyne/status/1067147564510777353
https://twitter.com/CNES/status/1067152995756982272