Menu

Blog

Nov 27, 2018

New Cameras on Mars!

Posted by in categories: internet, space

The flow of raw images sent from Mars, straight to the Web, has begun!


Insight begins sharing raw images on mission website.

There was jubilation when InSight landed, but I’m just as happy to be writing about a distinct InSight event: The flow of raw images sent from Mars, straight to the Web, has begun. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory has begun sharing images from InSight’s two cameras to the mission website. You can check this website any time, any day, to see if there are new images from Mars, and sometimes, you’ll be able to see them even before mission team members do. Here, for example, is the first image returned from InSight’s Instrument Deployment Camera, sent straight to the Web.

First image from InSight's Instrument Deployment Camera on Mars

Read more

Comments are closed.