10 images that captures the journey of NASA's InSight lander while it completes one year on Mars
The InSight lander launched aboard the Atlas V rocket on 5 May 2018 and reached Mars on 26 November 2018.
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This map shows the location of InSight’s landing spot along with the other Mars missions sent by NASA. Image credit: NASA/JPL
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The Mars Cube One (MarCO) is a pair of CubeSats that helped relay real-time communications during InSight’s entry, descent and landing on Mars. Image credit: NASA/JPL
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NASA engineers work on InSight lander’s solar panels to check if the solar cells were collecting power. Image credit: NASA/JPL
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The microchip that was installed on the InSight lander that contains all the names of the “Send Your Name to Mars” project conducted by NASA. Image credit: NASA/JPL
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The United Launch Alliance Atlas-V rocket that has the InSight spacecraft onboard prepares to take off from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
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The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off carrying NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, or the InSight Mars lander. Image credit: NASA/JPL
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Artist impression of the InSight lander on Mars giving the Red Planet its first thorough checkup since it formed 4.5 billion years ago.
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The Mars InSight lander, looking all shiny and new in its first self-portrait, on 11 December 2018, after it had landed on Mars. Image credit: NASA/JPL
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The dusty and dirty InSight lander took it’s second self-portrait on 11 April 2019, almost four months after it had landed on the Red Planet. Image credit: NASA/JPL
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NASA’s InSight lander used the Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC) on the end of its robotic arm to capture an image of a Martian sunset. Image credit: NASA/JPL
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