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InSight Team Reacts to First Picture

NASA’s InSight mission team in the surface operations area at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, converging on computer screens to get a glimpse of the first picture of Mars on Nov. 26, 2018.

November 26, 2018

NASA’s InSight mission team in the surface operations area at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, converging on computer screens to get a glimpse of the first picture of Mars on Nov. 26, 2018.

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