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PIA22811: InSight Touching Down on Mars (Illustration)
This illustration shows a simulated view of NASA's InSight lander kicking up dust as it lands on the Martian surface.
 Mission:  InSight 
 Spacecraft:  InSight Mars Lander
 Product Size:  3016 x 1694 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA22811.tif (12.82 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA22811.jpg (514.2 kB)  

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This illustration shows a simulated view of NASA's InSight lander kicking up dust as it lands on the Martian surface.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the InSight Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Space, Denver, Colorado built the spacecraft. 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 the mission, go to https://mars.nasa.gov/insight.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2018-10-10