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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.
(Score: 2) by qzm on Sunday December 16 2018, @01:38AM (7 children)
Fake news!
As all right thinking people know, the world is flat, airliners have video screens not Windows, all space images are faked in a studio, and steam rockets are the only way to see the truth!
Boat masts actually get shorter as they sail away over the ocean, and the sky is, well, a lie also! Especially at night. Don't even talk to me about night.
After all.. Is always the simplest explanation right?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday December 16 2018, @01:49AM
Funny you should mention "fake news". I replaced this story [soylentnews.org] with the InSight one.
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @03:42PM (5 children)
It does look like fake news. Do you see anything in this picture:
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/images/largesize/PIA22877_hires.jpg [nasa.gov]
NASA just puts random labels on a picture and people will believe it over their own eyes...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @04:23PM (4 children)
How about searching a little and posting these:
https://mars.nasa.gov/system/resources/detail_files/22220_PIA22875-16_web.png [nasa.gov]
https://static.uahirise.org/images/2018/details/cut/ESP_058005_1845-labels.jpg [uahirise.org]
In every thread about space, there always has to be at least one fucking flat-earther.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @05:58PM (3 children)
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)
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
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
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.
(Score: 2) by fadrian on Sunday December 16 2018, @01:49AM
I guess no one's going to fine them for littering.
That is all.
(Score: 3, Funny) by pkrasimirov on Sunday December 16 2018, @09:05AM (3 children)
> 1,000 feet (several hundred meters)
Now that's what I call proper conversion!
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday December 16 2018, @03:21PM (1 child)
The Martian government should ban Imperial units.
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(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Sunday December 16 2018, @09:02PM
The Emperor would like a word with you.
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Eschew Obfuscation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @08:50PM
What is the error on that 1,000 feet?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 16 2018, @07:12PM
"weeeh! the green laser pointer works!"
(Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Monday December 17 2018, @01:00AM
The first images from space didn't show the Insight lander.
Just kinda grainy views of Earth [airspacemag.com]mostly
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