NASA's InSight lander on Mars
NASA's InSight lander on Mars
After its launch on 5 May 2018, NASA's InSight spacecraft landed on 26 November of the same year in Elysium Planum, four-and-a-half degrees north of the equator and 2613 metres below the reference level on Mars. InSight, a NASA Discovery Class mission, is the first purely geophysical observatory on another celestial body. In addition to the French Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure SEIS (lower left) and the geothermal probe HP 3 (Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package, lower right) provided by DLR, a collection of supporting instruments are installed on the lander platform (the Auxiliary Payload Sensor Suite (APSS) – consisting of a barometer, an anemometer, a magnetometer and two cameras), the HP 3 radiometer and the Rotation and Interior Structure Experiment (RISE).
