It was just a couple of weeks ago that NASA’s shiny new InSight lander successfully touched down on the Red Planet, sending cheers throughout NASA and the scientific community as a whole. The robot has a lot of work ahead of it, but things always start slowly when you’re handling a machine remotely from another planet.
This week, InSight began testing out its robotic arm that will place a variety of instruments on the ground around it. Those instruments will listen to the inner workings of the planet and provide data for researchers hoping to learn more about what’s hidden deep underground. That’ll happen sooner rather than later, but at the moment NASA is teasing us all with some of the best images of the Martian landscape we’ve ever seen.
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NASA’s new Mars robot just sent back some awesome photos originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 7 Dec 2018 at 14:02:50 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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