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Title    Mars InSight Lander Seen in First Images from Space
Date    Sunday December 16 2018, @12:51AM
Author    takyon
Topic   
from the artificial-crater dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/12/15/2344224

MrPlow writes:

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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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  1. "MrPlow" - https://soylentnews.org/~MrPlow/
  2. "Mars InSight Lander Seen in First Images from Space" - https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7305
  3. "were spotted by HiRISE" - https://www.uahirise.org/releases/insight/hardware
  4. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=30640
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