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InSight on Mars (Illustration)

illustration of NASA's InSight on Mars

October 16, 2020

This illustration shows NASA's InSight spacecraft with its instruments deployed on the Martian surface.

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NASA/JPL-Caltech

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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.
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