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InSight Lander, 3D Model

April 27, 2019

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NASA/JPL-Caltech

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Putting SEIS on the Ground
This is one of the last images ever taken by NASA’s InSight Mars lander. Captured on Dec. 11, 2022, the 1,436th Martian day, or sol, of the mission, it shows InSight’s seismometer on the Red Planet...
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This is one of the last images ever taken by NASA’s InSight Mars lander. Captured on Dec. 11, 2022, the 1,436th Martian day, or sol, of the mission, it shows InSight’s seismometer on the Red Planet’s surface.
One of InSight's Last Images
While in the landed configuration for the last time before arriving on Mars, NASA's InSight lander was commanded to deploy its solar arrays to test and verify the exact process that it will use on ...
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InSight Lander Solar Array Test
Artist's concept of the interiors of Earth, Mars and Earth's moon.
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Artist's concept of the interiors of Earth, Mars and Earth's moon.
Artist's Concepts: Earth - Mars - Moon
NASA’s InSight lander detected seismic waves from a meteoroid and was able to capture the sound of the space rock striking the surface of Mars for the first time. The meteoroid – the term used for ...
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Hear Meteoroid Striking Mars, Captured by NASA's InSight Lander
This illustration shows a simulated view of NASA's InSight lander descending towards the surface of Mars on its parachute.
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This illustration shows a simulated view of NASA's InSight lander descending towards the surface of Mars on its parachute.
InSight on Its Parachute (Illustration)
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While in the landed configuration for the last time before arriving on Mars, NASA's InSight lander was commanded to deploy its solar arrays to test and verify the exact process that it will use on the surface of the Red Planet.
InSight Lander Solar Array Test
The dime-size microchip in this close-up image carries 826,923 names that will go to Mars on NASA's InSight lander.
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The dime-size microchip in this close-up image carries 826,923 names that will go to Mars on NASA's InSight lander.
Names-to-Mars Chip for InSight Spacecraft
Mars is experiencing large regional dust storms over its northern hemisphere during the past week.
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This movie was acquired by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s Mars Colour Imager (MARCI) camera.
The Martian Dust Storm of June 2018
The InSight spacecraft approaches Mars in this artist’s concept.
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The InSight spacecraft approaches Mars in this artist’s concept.
InSight Approaching Mars
NASA's InSight lander placed its seismometer on Mars on Dec. 19, 2018. This was the first time a spacecraft robotically placed a seismometer onto the surface of another planet.
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The seismometer is the copper-colored object in this image, which was taken around Martian dusk.
SEIS Deployed on Mars
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What's Up May 2018
This animation illustrates NASA's InSight lander touching down on Mars, its thrusters setting a rock in motion. A little bigger than a golf ball, the rock was later nicknamed "Rolling Stones Rock" ...
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This animation illustrates NASA's InSight lander touching down on Mars, its thrusters setting a rock in motion. A little bigger than a golf ball, the rock was later nicknamed "Rolling Stones Rock" by the InSight team in honor of The Rolling Stones.
Rolling Stones Rock
This map shows the footprints of images taken by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as part of advance analysis of the area where NASA's InSight mission will land in 2018. The ...
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This map shows the footprints of images taken by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as part of advance analysis of the area where NASA's InSight mission will land in 2018. The final planned image of the set will fill in the yellow-outlined rectangle on March 30, 2017.
Advance Inspection of NASA's Next Mars Landing Site
This artist's concept depicts NASA's InSight lander after it has deployed its instruments on the Martian surface. 
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This artist's concept depicts NASA's InSight lander after it has deployed its instruments on the Martian surface.
InSight Deploys its Instruments
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Inside InSight - A Mars Explorer and a Musician
Inside InSight: A Mars Explorer and a Musician
One of InSight's 7-foot (2.2 meter) wide solar panels was imaged by the lander's Instrument Deployment Camera, which is fixed to the elbow of its robotic arm.
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One of InSight's 7-foot (2.2 meter) wide solar panels was imaged by the lander's Instrument Deployment Camera, which is fixed to the elbow of its robotic arm.
InSight Images a Solar Panel
MarCO-B, one of the experimental Mars Cube One (MarCO) CubeSats, took this image of Mars from about 10,900 miles (17,500 kilometers) away just after NASA’s InSight spacecraft landed on Mars on Nov....
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MarCO-B, one of the experimental Mars Cube One (MarCO) CubeSats, took this image of Mars from about 10,900 miles (17,500 kilometers) away just after NASA’s InSight spacecraft landed on Mars on Nov. 26, 2018.
Away from Mars, With Reflection
The InSight Team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, in June 2015.
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The InSight Team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, in June 2015.
The InSight Team at JPL
An illustration of the route InSight takes to get to Mars.
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An illustration of the route InSight takes to get to Mars.
InSight's Route to Mars
The giant, 70-meter-wide antenna at NASA's Deep Space Network complex in Goldstone, Calif., tracks a spacecraft on Nov. 17, 2009.
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The giant, 70-meter-wide antenna at NASA's Deep Space Network complex in Goldstone, Calif., tracks a spacecraft on Nov. 17, 2009.
Tracks of a Giant
The red dot marks the final landing location of NASA's InSight lander in this annotated image of the surface of Mars, taken by the THEMIS camera on NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter in 2015.
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The red dot marks the final landing location of NASA's InSight lander in this annotated image of the surface of Mars, taken by the THEMIS camera on NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter in 2015.
InSight's Final Location on Mars
Spacecraft specialists at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, are preparing to attach the cruise stage of NASA's InSight spacecraft to the top of the spacecraft's back shell in this April 29, 20...
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Spacecraft specialists at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, are preparing to attach the cruise stage of NASA's InSight spacecraft to the top of the spacecraft's back shell in this April 29, 2015, photo.
Lowering InSight's Cruise Stage onto Back Shell
The image shows a very tall, wide, dish-shaped device that is about three times as wide and as tall as the two-story dome that supports it. Four metal ladderlike extensions form a pyramidal structu...
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The image shows a very tall, wide, dish-shaped device that is about three times as wide and as tall as the two-story dome that supports it. Four metal ladderlike extensions form a pyramidal structure topped by a box-like frame used for transmission and reception. The entire array is pointed skyward. In the background is a partly cloudy, blue sky above sagebrush-covered desert hills.
The Goldstone antenna
NASA’s InSight lander detected a marsquake, represented here as a seismogram, on July 25, 2019, the 235th Martian day, or sol, of its mission. Seismologists study the wiggles in seismograms in orde...
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NASA’s InSight lander detected a marsquake, represented here as a seismogram, on July 25, 2019, the 235th Martian day, or sol, of its mission.
Seismogram From Mars

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