It has been a long time since I have posted about InSight. This article has been posted on 11 December, but I didn't have time because of posting about countries and the Summer Learning Journey. So now I will tell you what happened.
NASA's InSight lander takes its first selfie. This selfie was taken on 6 December. The image shows the solar panels and deck. On top of the deck is its science instruments, weather sensor booms and UHF antenna. The spacecraft used a camera on its robotic arm to take its first selfie, by a mosaic made up with 11 images. There are many overlapping pictures taken and later stuck together.
Here is a mosaic made from 52 images from InSight, which shows where the spacecraft will eventually set its science instruments. The lavender annotation shows where Insight's seismometer and heat flow probe can be placed.
I hope you like my post about the first selfie of InSight. Stay tuned to watch my other posts of InSight. Be also to view my Summer Learning Journey posts every day! Have a cool day!! Bye!!
