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Credit & Copyright: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Explanation:
This is what NASA's Insight lander looks like on Mars.
With its
solar panels, InSight is about
the
size of a small bus.
Insight successfully landed on
Mars in November with a main objective to detect
seismic activity.
The featured selfie is a compilation of several images taken of different parts of
the
InSight lander, by the
lander's arm, at different times.
SEIS, the orange-domed
seismometer
seen near the image center last month, has now been placed on the
Martian surface.
With this selfie,
Mars InSight continues
a long tradition of robotic spacecraft on
Mars taking and returning
images of themselves, including
Viking,
Sojourner,
Pathfinder,
Spirit,
Opportunity,
Phoenix, and
Curiosity.
Data taken by Mars Insight is
expected to give humanity unprecedented data involving the
interior of Mars, a region thought to harbor
formation clues not only about Mars, but
Earth.
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