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NASA's Future Mars Lander, InSight

This artist's rendition shows NASA's future InSight Mars lander spacecraft on the Red Planet. The mission, which is scheduled to launch in 2016, is designed to investigate the evolution of Mars.

August 20, 2012

This artist's rendition shows NASA's future InSight Mars lander spacecraft on the Red Planet. The mission, which is scheduled to launch in 2016, is designed to investigate the evolution of Mars.

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This image from InSight's robotic-arm mounted Instrument Deployment Camera shows the instruments on the spacecraft's deck, with the Martian surface of Elysium Planitia in the background. The image was received on Dec. 4, 2018 (Sol 8).
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Spacecraft specialists at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, prepare NASA's InSight spacecraft for vibration testing as part of assuring that it is ready for the rigors of launch from Earth and...
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Spacecraft specialists at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, prepare NASA's InSight spacecraft for vibration testing as part of assuring that it is ready for the rigors of launch from Earth and flight to Mars.
Preparing NASA's InSight Spacecraft for Vibration Test
NASA’s InSight mission tests an engineering version of the spacecraft’s robotic arm in a Mars-like environment at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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NASA’s InSight mission tests an engineering version of the spacecraft’s robotic arm in a Mars-like environment at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
InSight Robotic Arm Test Lift of Wind and Thermal Shield
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Interplanetary CubeSat for Technology Demonstration at Mars
This test image from an engineering model of NASA’s InSight lander shows part of the lander’s robotic arm and the simulated Martian ground at a testbed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasade...
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This test image from an engineering model of NASA’s InSight lander shows part of the lander’s robotic arm and the simulated Martian ground at a testbed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Test Raw Image of Robotic Arm in InSight Testbed
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This photo shows the upper side of the cruise stage of NASA's InSight spacecraft as specialists at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, attach it to the spacecraft's back shell.
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This photo shows the upper side of the cruise stage of NASA's InSight spacecraft as specialists at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, attach it to the spacecraft's back shell.
Top View of InSight's Cruise Stage
The “mole,” a heat probe that traveled to Mars aboard NASA’s InSight lander, as it looked after hammering on Jan. 9, 2021, the 754th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. After trying since Feb. 28,...
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InSight's mole on Mars
InSight's ‘Mole' Comes to Rest
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MarCO-B, one of the experimental Mars Cube One (MarCO) CubeSats, took this image of Mars from about 11,300 miles (18,200 kilometers) away shortly before NASA’s InSight spacecraft landed on Mars on Nov. 26, 2018.
Mars, Before InSight's Landing
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InSight's Robotic Arm Helps Remove Solar Panel Dust Trickles Sand in the Wind
An annotated image of the surface of Mars, taken by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) on May 30, 2014. 
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An annotated image of the surface of Mars, taken by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) on May 30, 2014.
Of Wind and Dust Devils on Mars
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InSight's Spectrogram of Big Martian Quake
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Mars Interior
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A C-17 cargo aircraft carrying NASA's InSight spacecraft flew from Buckley Air Force Base, Denver, to Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, on February 28, 2018. The spacecraft was being shipped f...
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Engineers at Lockheed Martin Space, Denver, Colorado, prepare NASA's InSight lander for testing in a thermal vacuum chamber several months before launch.
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Engineers at Lockheed Martin Space, Denver, Colorado, prepare NASA's InSight lander for testing in a thermal vacuum chamber several months before launch.
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This artist's rendering shows a cutaway of the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure instrument, or SEIS, which will fly as part of NASA's Mars InSight lander. SEIS is a highly sensitive seismometer that will be used to detect marsquakes from the Red Planet's surface for the first time.
Cutaway of SEIS
Artist's concept of the interiors of Earth, Mars and Earth's moon.
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