A thin layer of Martian dust can be seen coating InSight in this selfie taken by the Instrument Deployment Camera on the landers robotic arm. The image is made up of 14 shots captured March 15 and April 11, 2019, the 106th and 133rd Martian days, or sols, of the mission.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT (11 a.m. PDT) on Tuesday, May 17, to provide an update on the agencys InSight Mars lander. NASA leadership and mission team members will highlight InSights science accomplishments, share details on the spacecrafts power situation, and discuss its future.
Audio of the briefing, as well as supporting graphics, will livestream at:
The teleconference participants will include:
- Lori Glaze, director of NASAs Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington
- Bruce Banerdt, InSight principal investigator, NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California
- Kathya Zamora Garcia, InSight deputy project manager, JPL
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