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April 19, 2019
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NASA's InSight spacecraft captured this panorama of its landing site on Dec. 9, 2018, the 14th Martian day, or sol, of its mission. The 290-degree perspective surveys the rim of the degraded crater InSight landed in, nicknamed "Homestead Hollow."
The panorama is made of 30 individual images that were taken by the spacecraft's Instrument Deployment Camera, located on its robotic arm.
Raw Images Animation
Animation above: NASA's InSight Mars lander acquired this image using its robotic arm-mounted, Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC) and Instrument Context Camera (ICC). The images was acquired between April 14 at April 18, 2019, Sol 135 where the local mean solar time.
JPL manages InSight for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. InSight is part of NASA's Discovery Program, managed by the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Lockheed Martin Space in Denver built the InSight spacecraft, including its cruise stage and lander, and supports spacecraft operations for the mission.
InSight Mars Lander: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/insight/main/index.html
Image, Animation, Text, Credits: NASA/Tony Greicius/Orbiter.ch Aerospace/Roland Berga.
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