Subj : Daily APOD Report To : All From : Ben Ritchey Date : Mon Jan 21 2019 08:16:15 Astronomy Picture of the Day Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! [1] Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2019 January 21 [2] InSight Lander Takes Selfie on Mars Image Credit: NASA [3] / JPL-Caltech [4] Explanation: This is what NASA's Insight lander looks like on Mars. With its solar panels [5] , InSight is about the size [6] of a small bus. Insight successfully landed on Mars [7] in November with a main objective to detect seismic activity [8] . The featured selfie is a compilation of several images taken of different parts of the InSight [9] lander, by the lander's arm [10] , at different times. SEIS [11] , the orange-domed seismometer [12] seen near the image center last month, has now been placed on the Martian surface [13] . With this selfie, Mars InSight [14] continues a long tradition of robotic spacecraft on Mars taking and returning images of themselves, including Viking [15] , Sojourner [16] , Pathfinder [17] , Spirit [18] , Opportunity [19] , Phoenix [20] , and Curiosity [21] . Data taken by Mars Insight is expected to give humanity unprecedented data involving the interior of Mars [22] , a region thought to harbor formation clues [23] not only about Mars, but Earth [24] . Tomorrow's picture: good lunar eclipse photo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < [25] | Archive [26] | Submissions [27] | Index [28] | Search [29] | Calendar [30] | RSS [31] | Education [32] | About APOD [33] | Discuss [34] | > [35] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff [36] (MTU [37] ) & Jerry Bonnell [38] (UMCP [39] ) NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply [40] . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices [41] A service of: ASD [42] at NASA [43] / GSFC [44] & Michigan Tech. U. [45] ---------- Site notes: [1] archivepix.html [2] image/1901/Selfie_InSight_4391.jpg [3] https://www.nasa.gov/ [4] https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_panel [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InSight#/media/ File:PIA19664-MarsInSightLander-Assembly-20150430.jpg [7] https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/mars/overview/ [8] https://youtu.be/vm4xx6P56H4 [9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InSight [10] ap181210.html [11] https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/spacecraft/instruments/seis/ [12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismometer [13] ap131208.html [14] https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/ [15] ap950721.html [16] ap991030.html [17] ap000912.html [18] ap040122.html [19] ap110508.html [20] ap110313.html [21] ap140627.html [22] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/308/5725/1120 [23] http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000JGR...10517563S [24] ap070325.html [25] ap190120.html [26] archivepix.html [27] lib/apsubmit2015.html [28] lib/aptree.html [29] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search [30] calendar/allyears.html [31] /apod.rss [32] lib/edlinks.html [33] lib/about_apod.html [34] http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=190121 [35] ap190122.html [36] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html [37] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ [38] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html [39] http://www.astro.umd.edu/ [40] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [41] https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html [42] https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ [43] https://www.nasa.gov/ [44] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ [45] http://www.mtu.edu/ --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A42 (Windows/32) * Origin: FIDONet - The Positronium Repository (1:393/68) .