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PIA22954: ForeSight's Grapple

ForeSight, a fully functional, full-size model of NASA's InSight lander, grasps a model of the lander's Wind and Thermal Shield. This testing was done at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Target Name:	Mars
Mission:	InSight
Spacecraft:	InSight Mars Lander
Product Size:	4000 x 6000 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	JPL
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA22954.tif (54.02 MB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA22954.jpg (1.298 MB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

ForeSight, a fully functional, full-size model of NASA's InSight lander, grasps a model of the lander's Wind and Thermal Shield while engineer Maggie Williams looks on. This testing was done at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Williams is wearing sunglasses to block the bright yellow lights in the test space, which mimic sunlight as it appears on Mars.

JPL, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages InSight for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. InSight is part of NASA's Discovery Program, managed by the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The InSight spacecraft was built and tested by Lockheed Martin Space in Denver, Colorado.

For more information about the mission, go to https://mars.nasa.gov/insight.

Image Credit:

NASA/JPL-Caltech/IPGP

Image Addition Date:

2018-12-18