{"id":85816,"date":"2018-12-14T05:02:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T13:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/nasas-insight-lander-on-mars-spotted-from-space"},"modified":"2018-12-14T05:02:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T13:02:23","slug":"nasas-insight-lander-on-mars-spotted-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/nasas-insight-lander-on-mars-spotted-from-space","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Insight Lander on Mars Spotted from Space!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-insight-lander-on-mars-spotted-from-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s newly arrived Mars lander has been spotted by one its orbiting cousins.<\/p>\n<p>The space agency\u2019s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter used its supersharp High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera (HiRISE) to photograph the InSight lander, as well as the hardware that helped the stationary robot ace its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/42488-insight-mars-lander-mission-full-coverage.html\">Nov. 26 touchdown<\/a> on the equatorial plain known as Elysium Planitia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looks like the heat shield (upper right) has its dark outside facing down, since it is so bright (saturated, probably a specular reflection),\u201d HiRISE principal investigator Alfred McEwen, of the University of Arizona, wrote in an image description today (Dec. 13). [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/17199-nasa-mars-insight-lander-mission-gallery.html\">Mars InSight in Photos: NASA\u2019s Mission to Probe Core of the Red Planet<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/42731-insight-mars-lander-space-photos-mro.html\">https:\/\/www.space.com\/42731-insight-mars-lander-space-photos-mro.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s newly arrived Mars lander has been spotted by one its orbiting cousins. The space agency\u2019s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter used its supersharp High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera (HiRISE) to photograph the InSight lander, as well as the hardware that helped the stationary robot ace its Nov. 26 touchdown on the equatorial plain known as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}