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PIA22202: InSight Lander Solar Array Test
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.
 Mission:  InSight 
 Product Size:  5760 x 3840 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Lockheed Martin Space 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA22202.tif (52.38 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA22202.jpg (2.055 MB)  

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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. During the test on Jan. 23, 2018 from the Lockheed Martin clean room in Littleton, Colorado, engineers and technicians evaluated that the solar arrays fully deployed and conducted an illumination test to confirm that the solar cells were collecting power.

The InSight Project is managed by JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, 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.

For more information about InSight, visit http://insight.jpl.nasa.gov. Additional information on the Discovery Program is available at http://discovery.nasa.gov.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Lockheed Martin

Image Addition Date:
2018-01-23