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PIA19402: InSight Lander in Assembly

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.

Mission:	InSight
Product Size:	2000 x 1333 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	Lockheed Martin Space
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA19402.tif (8.001 MB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA19402.jpg (376.8 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

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. In this scene from January 2015, Lockheed Martin spacecraft specialists are working on the lander in a clean room.

InSight, for Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is scheduled for launch in March 2016 and landing in September 2016.

The InSight Project is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington. InSight is part of NASA's Discovery Program, which is managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Image Credit:

NASA/JPL-Caltech/Lockheed Martin

Image Addition Date:

2015-05-27