Tipoffs for Boulder, Colorado (Federal Agencies) Newsletter for Thursday December 19, 2024 ( 1 items ) |
NASA Mars Orbiter Spots Retired InSight Lander to Study Dust Movement
PASADENA, California, Dec. 17 (TNSres) -- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news:
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) caught a glimpse of the agency's retired InSight lander recently, documenting the accumulation of dust on the spacecraft's solar panels. In the new image taken Oct. 23 by MRO's High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, InSight's solar panels have acquired the same reddish-brown hue as the rest of the planet.
After touching down in Novemb
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