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Mars InSight Lander Seen in First Images from Space

posted by takyon on Sunday December 16 2018, @12:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the artificial-crater dept.

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Mars InSight Lander Seen in First Images from Space

On Nov. 26, NASA's InSight mission knew the spacecraft touched down within an 81-mile-long (130-kilometer-long) landing ellipse on Mars. Now, the team has pinpointed InSight's exact location using images from HiRISE, a powerful camera onboard another NASA spacecraft, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).

The InSight lander, its heat shield and parachute were spotted by HiRISE (which stands for High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) in one set of images last week on Dec. 6, and again on Tuesday, Dec. 11. The lander, heat shield and parachute are within 1,000 feet (several hundred meters) of one another on Elysium Planitia, the flat lava plain selected as InSight's landing location.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @05:58PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @05:58PM (#775127)

    Any picture from mars that shows it as red (like your two) has been manipulated, so we can dismiss them right away:

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2981558/Forget-dress-colour-MARS-people-say-planet-blue-green-pink-red.html [dailymail.co.uk]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wPbQj7uQe8 [youtube.com]

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @10:46PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @10:46PM (#775211)

    Wow. A link to an article of the dailymail by a moron who understands nothing about color balance, and another link to a youtube video by a conspiracy theorist asshole.

    Tell me, have YOU seen the Viking pictures when they first came out in the seventies ? Were you even born ? And have you actually LOOKED at mars, with your own eyes, through a telescope ?

    I should have known better than to try to argue with a fucking flat-earther. My father used to say "Don't bother wresling with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it."

    I think I'll follow his advice.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @11:56PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @11:56PM (#775224)

      A link to an article of the dailymail by a moron who understands nothing about color balance

      Color balance on earth, show us earth pictures that look similar to what we see with our eyes taken from that camera, then use the same procedure for the pictures from mars. It isn't complicated.

      Too bad when they do that mars doesnt look red.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 17 2018, @12:04AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 17 2018, @12:04AM (#775229)

      I should have known better than to try to argue with a fucking flat-earther.

      Flat earthers are wrong. The earth is round but the oceans are flat. Watch an olive float in a bowl to see what I mean.