PIA22833: Farewell to Mars
On Nov. 26, 2018, MarCO-B, one of NASA's Mars Cube One (MarCO) CubeSats, took this image of Mars from about 4,700 miles (6,000 kilometers) away during its flyby of the Red Planet.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  MarCO 
 Spacecraft:  MarCO-B
 Product Size:  1920 x 1080 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA22833.tif (2.495 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA22833.jpg (92 kB)  

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MarCO-B, one of the experimental Mars Cube One (MarCO) CubeSats, took this image of Mars from about 4,700 miles (7,600 kilometers) away during its flyby of the Red Planet on Nov. 26, 2018. MarCO-B was flying by Mars with its twin, MarCO-A, to attempt to serve as communications relays for NASA's InSight spacecraft as it landed on Mars. This image was taken at about 12:10 p.m. PST (3:10 p.m. EST) while MarCO-B was flying away from the planet after InSight landed.

The MarCO and InSight projects are managed for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, by JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2018-11-26