Mars 360: NASA's Mars InSight Lander - Sol 10 (360video 8K)

InSight's First Selfie

This panorama combines 10 exposures taken by the lander's Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC), located on the elbow of its robotic arm, during the Sol 10 of InSight's work on Mars (December 7, 2018). Additionally 86 images of landscape was taken on Sol 14 (December 11, 2018). Some parts of the panorama has been retouched.

NASA's InSight lander isn't camera-shy. The spacecraft used a camera on its robotic arm to take its first selfie — a mosaic made up of 11 images. This is the same imaging process used by NASA's Curiosity rover mission, in which many overlapping pictures are taken and later stitched together. Visible in the selfie are the lander's solar panel and its entire deck, including its science instruments.

Written by Andrew Good
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif

NASA's Mars Exploration Program
Source images credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech
Stitching and retouching: Andrew Bodrov / 360pano.eu (https://tinyurl.com/sol010)

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Artist: The Intangible (https://ambrosia57.bandcamp.com/)

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