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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
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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: 2) by RandomFactor on Monday December 17 2018, @01:00AM

    by RandomFactor (3682) on Monday December 17 2018, @01:00AM (#775247) Journal

    The first images from space didn't show the Insight lander.

    Just kinda grainy views of Earth [airspacemag.com]mostly

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