NASA’s InSight Spacecraft Has Touched Down on Mars
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Credit: NASA
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Mission controllers at NASA-JPL have received a signal from NASA’s InSight lander on the Mars surface via MarCO OR a beep from InSight’s X-band radio. In the coming hours, engineers will be checking on the spacecraft’s health. A post-landing news briefing expected at 2 p.m. PST (5 p.m. EST).
NASA’s InSight Lander has returned its first picture from Mars via the MarCO CubeSat mission. A post-landing news is briefing expected at 2 p.m. PST (5 p.m. EST).
The image of the surface of Mars was acquired on November 26, 2018, Sol 0 of the InSight mission where the local mean solar time for the image exposures was 13:34:21. Each ICC image has a field of view of 124 x 124 degrees.
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Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
