Venus, Earth and Its Moon, and Mars

This long-exposure image (24 seconds) was taken by Instrument Context Camera (ICC) of NASA’s InSight Mars lander. 

Troy Hudson, right, shares the science of NASA's InSight mission with kids at San Francisco's Exploratorium in April 2018. Hudson is a scientist and engineer with InSight.

ForeSight, a fully functional, full-size model of NASA's InSight lander, practices deploying a model of the lander's Wind and Thermal Shield while engineers Phil Bailey (left) and Jaime Singer (cen...

The Rolling Stones took the stage at the Rose Bowl on Aug. 22, 2019. NASA's Mars InSight lander team named a Martian rock "Rolling Stones Rock."

While in the landed configuration for the last time before arriving on Mars,

The payload fairing of the Atlas V rocket that would launch NASA's InSight lander to Mars is lifted up so that it can be mated to the top of the rocket.

This illustration shows a simulated view of NASA's InSight lander descending towards the surface of Mars on its parachute.

Get your boarding pass to fly your name on the next mission to Mars

An artist illustration of the InSight lander on Mars.

We know what "The Red Planet" looks like from the outside -- but what's going on under the surface of Mars? Find out more in the 60-second video from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The InSight Team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, in June 2015.

A partial view of the deck of NASA's InSight lander, where it stands on the Martian plains Elysium Planitia. The image was received on Dec. 4, 2018 (Sol 8).

The science deck of NASA's InSight lander is being turned over in this April 29, 2015, photo from InSight assembly and testing operations inside a clean room at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver.

NASA-JPL InSight systems engineer Julie Wertz helps land spacecraft on the Red Planet. This includes entering the atmosphere, deploying a parachute and safely touching down. This process, called en...

Seasons change even on Mars and NASA's fleet of explorers are helping scientists learn more about the effects on the Red Planet.

NASA's Mars Cube One, or MarCO, is heading to deep space to test a first-of-its-kind technology demonstration: near-real-time communication between Earth and Mars using CubeSats.

Growing up, NASA-JPL engineer Farah Alibay didn't have a role model who was an engineer and a woman of color. Now, she hopes she can play that role for the next generation as Mars Cube One (MarCO) ...

The 2019 Small Satellite Mission of the Year Award sitting at a MarCO exhibit space at the Small Satellite Conference in Logan, Utah.

Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu is in charge of the InSight mission’s robotic arm and hand. His work on space robots has led him to give a helping hand back home.

In this February 2015 scene from a clean room at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, specialists are building the heat shield to protect NASA's InSight spacecraft when it is speeding through the...

An artist's concept of InSight's heat probe, called the Heat and Physical Properties Package (HP3), annotates various parts inside of the instrument.

NASA's two MarCO CubeSats will be flying past Mars in September 2016 just as NASA's next Mars lander, InSight, is descending through the Martian atmosphere and landing on the surface.

Visitors await news of InSight's landing during a viewing party at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, California on Nov. 26, 2018.

This image of a footpad on NASA’s Insight lander was taken by the Instrument Deployment Camera during the assembly, test and launch operations phase at Lockheed Martin Space, Denver. The Instrument...

In a Mars-like environment at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the fish-eye instrument context camera aboard NASA's InSight lander snapped this image of the actor Brad Pitt on Sept. 6, 2019. Pitt ...