InSight and MarCO flight controllers monitored and cheered for the spacecraft's successful entry, descent and landing from mission control at JPL in Pasadena, California.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told a post landing press briefing Germany and France are great partners of the InSight Mission.

A number of European partners, including France's Centre National d'études Spatiales (CNES) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), support the InSight mission.

CNES provided the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument, and DLR provided the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3) instrument, he said.

It took the InSight team about four to five years to design and execute the mission, said an engineer at the mission control.

He said the basic design of InSight was inherited from Phoenix spacecraft, which landed on Mars on May 25, 2008.

To look deep into Mars, the lander must be at a place where it can stay still and quiet for its entire mission. That's why scientists chose Elysium Planitia as InSight's home, according to NASA.

The red planet is comparatively easy to land on and is less likely to melt our equipment than Venus or Mercury, according to NASA.

Launched on May 5, InSight marks NASA's first Mars landing since the Curiosity rover in 2017 and the first dedicated to studying the deep interior of Mars.

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