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InSight's Final Selfie

May 23, 2022

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NASA's InSight Mars lander took this final selfie on April 24, 2022,
the 1,211th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The lander is
covered with far more dust than it was in its first selfie, taken in
December 2018, not long after landing - or in its second selfie,
composed of images taken in March and April 2019.

The arm needs to move several times in order to capture a full
selfie. Because InSight's dusty solar panels are producing less
power, the team will soon put the lander's robotic arm in its resting
position (called the "retirement pose") for the last time in May of
2022.

JPL manages InSight for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. InSight
is part of NASA's Discovery Program, managed by the agency's Marshall
Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Lockheed Martin Space in
Denver built the InSight spacecraft, including its cruise stage and
lander, and supports spacecraft operations for the mission.

A number of European partners, including France's Centre National
d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), are
supporting the InSight mission. CNES provided the Seismic Experiment
for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument to NASA, with the principal
investigator at IPGP (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris).
Significant contributions for SEIS came from IPGP; the Max Planck
Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany; the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) in Switzerland; Imperial
College London and Oxford University in the United Kingdom; and JPL.
DLR provided the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3)
instrument, with significant contributions from the Space Research
Center (CBK) of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Astronika in
Poland. Spain's Centro de Astrobiologia (CAB) supplied the
temperature and wind sensors.

For more information about the mission, go to https://mars.nasa.gov/
insight.

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