Image from the Mars InSight Mission web site:
Sol 0: Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC)
NASA's InSight Mars lander acquired this image using its robotic arm-mounted, Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC).
This image was acquired on November 26, 2018, Sol 0 where the local mean solar time for the image exposures was 14:04:35. Each IDC image has a field of view of 45 x 45 degrees.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Briefly, the mission of InSight:
InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to give the Red Planet its first thorough checkup since it formed 4.5 billion years ago. It is the first outer space robotic explorer to study in-depth the "inner space" of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core.Just when you despair of scientific and human advancement in the Age of Trump, something like this comes along. (h/t Infidel 753 for the mission link)
2 comments:
Just like photos of distant galaxies, photos from this new exploration offer us more information, more data, and more proof that we must pursue the mysteries out in space. We gain so much from exploration that we cannot afford not to visit other planets and stars.
And it all offers hope for our future, that in the midst of idiots and naysayers, we have genius and perserverence to move us forward. We have hope.
donnah - yes, indeed!
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