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Robert Downey Jr. Meets Team InSight

Actor Robert Downey Jr. posed with members of NASA's Mars InSight lander team before the Rolling Stones took the stage at the Rose Bowl on Aug. 22, 2019.

August 22, 2019

Actor Robert Downey Jr. posed with members of NASA's Mars InSight lander team before the Rolling Stones took the stage at the Rose Bowl on Aug. 22, 2019.

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A spacecraft specialist in a clean room at Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver, where the InSight lander is being built, affixes a dime-size chip onto the lander deck in November 2015.
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A spacecraft specialist in a clean room at Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver, where the InSight lander is being built, affixes a dime-size chip onto the lander deck in November 2015.
Names Chip Placed on InSight Lander Deck
Artist's concept of the Atlas V-401 rocket.
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Artist's concept of the Atlas V-401 rocket.
Atlas V-401 Rocket
This map shows the single area under continuing evaluation as the InSight mission's Mars landing site for the mission's May 2018 launch.
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This map shows the single area under continuing evaluation as the InSight mission's Mars landing site for the mission's May 2018 launch.
Landing Site for InSight
NASA's InSight lander placed a seismometer on the Martian surface to study marsquakes. 
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NASA's InSight lander placed a seismometer on the Martian surface to study marsquakes.
Listen to NASA's InSight at Work on Mars
This view shows the top of the science deck of NASA's InSight Mars lander, with the mission's seismometer instrument, heat probe instrument, robotic arm and other gear installed. The view looks upw...
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This view shows the top of the science deck of NASA's InSight Mars lander, with the mission's seismometer instrument, heat probe instrument, robotic arm and other gear installed. The view looks upward at the lander suspended upside down in a Lockheed Martin facility in Colorado.
Mars Lander Deck of NASA's InSight Mission
This GIF shows NASA InSight's heat probe, or "mole," digging about a centimeter (half an inch) below the surface last week. Using a technique called "pinning," InSight recently pressed the scoop on...
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This GIF shows NASA InSight's heat probe, or "mole," digging about a centimeter (half an inch) below the surface last week.
'Pinning' Helps the Mole Move
This collage shows three other meteoroid impacts that were detected by the seismometer on NASA’s InSight lander and captured by the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its HiRISE camera.
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This collage shows three other meteoroid impacts that were detected by the seismometer on NASA’s InSight lander and captured by the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its HiRISE camera.
Mars Crater Collage
An engineering version of the robotic arm on NASA’s InSight mission lifts the engineering version of the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Probe (HP3) at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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An engineering version of the robotic arm on NASA’s InSight mission lifts the engineering version of the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Probe (HP3) at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
InSight Robotic Arm Test Lift of Heat Probe
Missions to outer space have come a long way since the days of Cold War competition. Farah Alibay finds that building relationships is a big part of building spacecraft.
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We are the World
This annotated version of MarCO's first image of Mars details the thermal blanket, high gain antenna, and Mars.
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This annotated version of MarCO's first image of Mars details the thermal blanket, high gain antenna, and Mars.
NASA's First Image of Mars from a CubeSat
NASA held a media teleconference on the InSight lander and its recordings of wind vibrations on Mars. 
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NASA held a media teleconference on the InSight lander and its recordings of wind vibrations on Mars.
NASA's InSight 'Hears' the Sound of Mars
This kickoff of a new Mars video series covers Opportunity's 14th anniversary on the Red Planet, Curiosity's spectacular panorama and ice deposits spotted by an orbiter.
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This kickoff of a new Mars video series covers Opportunity's 14th anniversary on the Red Planet, Curiosity's spectacular panorama and ice deposits spotted by an orbiter.
Mars Report: January 2018
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Pourquoi les plus hauts sommets du système solaire se trouvent-ils sur l'un de ses plus petits corps planétaires? Comme pour toute planète, l’aspect de la surface martienne est liée à ce qui se passe en profondeur.
Mars in a Minute: (French) Comment Mars peut elle avoir de si grandes montagnes?
This parachute testing for NASA's InSight mission to Mars was conducted inside the world's largest wind tunnel, at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, in February 2015.
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This parachute testing for NASA's InSight mission to Mars was conducted inside the world's largest wind tunnel, at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, in February 2015.
Parachute Testing for NASA's InSight Mission
NASA's Curiosity finds crystals, Opportunity celebrates her 5,000th day on Mars and the MarCO smallsats get solar arrays.
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NASA's Curiosity finds crystals, Opportunity celebrates her 5,000th day on Mars and the MarCO smallsats get solar arrays.
Mars Report: February 2018
This spectrogram shows the largest quake ever detected on another planet. Estimated at magnitude 5, this quake was discovered by NASA’s InSight lander on May 4, 2022, the 1,222nd Martian day, or so...
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This spectrogram shows the largest quake ever detected on another planet.
InSight's Spectrogram of Big Martian Quake
The Mars lander that NASA's InSight mission will use for investigating how rocky planets formed and evolved is being assembled by Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver.
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The Mars lander that NASA's InSight mission will use for investigating how rocky planets formed and evolved is being assembled by Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver.
InSight Lander in Assembly
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 ...
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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).
Full View of InSight's Deck and Two Science Instruments
This test using an engineering model of the InSight lander here on Earth shows how the spacecraft on Mars will use its robotic arm to press on a digging device, called the "mole."
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This test using an engineering model of the InSight lander here on Earth shows how the spacecraft on Mars will use its robotic arm to press on a digging device, called the "mole."
Robotic Arm Pushes on a Model of the 'Mole'
This is an image taken by an engineering model of NASA’s InSight lander during a rehearsal for instrument deployment in a Mars-like testbed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.
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This is an image taken by an engineering model of NASA’s InSight lander during a rehearsal for instrument deployment in a Mars-like testbed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.
InSight Instrument Deployment Test in JPL Sandbox
The heat shield is suspended above the rest of the InSight spacecraft in this image taken July 13, 2015, in a spacecraft assembly clean room at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver.
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The heat shield is suspended above the rest of the InSight spacecraft in this image taken July 13, 2015, in a spacecraft assembly clean room at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver.
InSight Aeroshell Coming Together
NASA-JPL InSight engineer Marleen Martinez Sundgaard works in a simulated Martian sandbox. She tests science instruments meant for Mars right here on Earth. Growing up in a migrant farming family, ...
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Inside InSight: From Migrant Farming to Mars
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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military transport aircraft in flight
C-17 Shipping InSight Mars Spacecraft to Vandenberg Air Force Base
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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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
This long-exposure image (24 seconds) was taken by Instrument Context Camera (ICC) of NASA’s InSight Mars lander. 
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This long-exposure image (24 seconds) was taken by Instrument Context Camera (ICC) of NASA’s InSight Mars lander.
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