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PIA23280: InSight's Portrait of a Star (Brad Pitt)
The engineering model of NASA's InSight lander took an image of the actor Brad Pitt at JPL on Sept. 6, 2019, using the instrument deployment camera on the replica's robotic arm.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  InSight 
 Instrument:  Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC) 
 Product Size:  1024 x 1024 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA23280.tif (3.147 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA23280.jpg (180.6 kB)  

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The engineering model of NASA's InSight lander — a replica used for test purposes — took an image of the actor Brad Pitt at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on Sept. 6, 2019. Taken by the instrument deployment camera on the replica's robotic arm in the Mars-like environment of JPL's In-Situ Instrument Laboratory, the picture has been white-balanced to remove the orange-red tint of the Mars lights in the room. Pitt visited JPL to learn about real space technology after filming his space-themed movie "Ad Astra."

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2019-09-18