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The new Mars Mars of NASA has returned the first stunning of the surface of the red planet, taken at the end of a terrifying journey.
In addition to showing the red and dusty ground that now houses the InSight lander, the photo marks a near-success of a trip that took seven months of the Earth, and culminated with a few hours of nervousness while InSight swept away the Martian atmosphere.
The photo, which shows the InSight spacecraft at the front and the Martian surface farther away, is an incredible look at a world that has killed most of the landers that have tried to get there.
1/30 Earth of the ISS
Terry W. Virts, flight engineer of expedition 42 of the International Space Station, took this picture of the Gulf of Mexico and the US Gulf Coast at sunset.
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2/30 March frozen slopes
This image of an area of the surface of Mars, about 1.5 km by 3 km, shows frosted gullies on a slope facing south in a crater. The photo was taken by NASA's HiRISE camera, mounted on its Mars reconnaissance orbiter.
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3/30 Orion capsule splashes
The Orion capsule flew into space before returning a few hours later – after proving that it could be used someday to transport humans to Mars.
Nasa
4/30 Launch of the Soyuz TMA-15M rocket
The launch of the Soyuz TMA-15M rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Monday, November 24, 2014, bringing three new astronauts to the International Space Station. It also took caviar, ready for the inhabitants of the satellite to celebrate the holidays
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5/30 Yellowstone from the space
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman shared this image of Yellowstone via his Twitter account
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6/30 Black hole Friday
NASA celebrated Black Friday by exploring space – sharing images of black holes
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7/30 NuSTAR
The X-rays of the sun in this image show observations made by NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopy Telescope System, or NuSTAR, superimposed on a photo taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).
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8/30 Saturn
This near infrared color image shows specular reflection, or the color of the sun, on a lake of hydrocarbons named Kivu Lacus on Titan, the moon of Saturn.
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9/30 Worlds apart
Although Mimas and Pandora, represented here, orbit both around Saturn, they are very different moons. Pandora, "small" to the norms of the moon (50 miles or 81 kilometers in diameter) is elongated and irregularly shaped. Mimas (396 kilometers), a "medium-sized" moon, formed into a sphere because of its own gravity imposed by its higher mass
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10/30 Solar eruption
A solar flare of class X1.6 flashes in the middle of the sun on this image taken on September 10, captured by the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory
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11/30 Solar eruption
An image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows a solar filament 200,000 km long tearing the solar corona in September 2013.
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12/30 Cassiopeia A c
A false-color image of Cassiopeia A including data from the Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes and the Chandra X-ray observatory
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13/30 Great galaxy of magellanic clouds
Image of the galaxy of great magellanic clouds seen in infrared light by the Herschel space observatory. Regions of space such as this one are those where new stars are born from a mixture of elements and cosmic dust.
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14/30 Mars Rover Spirit
Mars Rover Spirit of NASA took the first picture of Spirit since the beginning of the communication problems a week earlier. The picture shows the robotic arm extended to the rock called Adirondack
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15/30 Aurora morning of the space station
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly captured this photograph of the aurora green lights from the International Space Station
16/30 Launching History – Making STS-41G Mission in 1984
The Space Shuttle Challenger departs from Florida at dawn. During this mission, Kathryn Sullivan became the first American woman to make a spacewalk and Marc Garneau became the first Canadian in space. The crew of seven was the largest spacecraft aboard a spacecraft at that time and STS-41G was the first to include two female astronauts.
17/30 A new perspective on an extraordinary group of galaxies
Clusters of galaxies are often described by superlatives. After all, they are huge conglomerates of galaxies, hot gases and dark matter and represent the largest structures in the universe held together by gravity.
18/30 Veil Nebula Supernova Remaining
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope unveiled in great detail a small section of the Veil Nebula – the expanding remains of a huge star that exploded about 8,000 years ago
19/30 Hubble sees a galactic sunflower
The arrangement of the spiral arms in the Messier galaxy 63, visible here in an image of the Nasa Hubble Space Telescope, recalls the motif located in the center of a sunflower.
20/30 A Hubble Cosmic Couple
The spectacular cosmic pairing of the star Hen 2-427 – more commonly known as WR 124 – and the M1-67 nebula that surrounds it
21/30 Pluto's picture
Four images of the New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) were combined with Ralph's instrument color data to create this enhanced overall color view of Pluto.
22/30 Fresh crater near Sirenum Fossae, Mars area
The HiRISE camera on NASA 's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter acquired this enlarged image of a "fresh" impact crater (at the geological scale, although quite old at the time). 39, human scale) in the region of Sirenum Fossae of Mars. This impact crater seems relatively recent because it has a clean border and well preserved ejectas.
23/30 Observations of the Earth Gemini IV in 1965
This photo of the Strait of Florida and Grand Bahama Bank was taken during the Gemini IV mission during Orbit no. 19 in 1965. The crew of the Gemini IV conducted scientific experiments, including photographs of the weather and terrain of the Earth, for the remainder of their four-day mission following the release into space Ed White's history on June 3rd.
24/30 NASA celebrates 50 years of escape into space
For 50 years, NASA "dresses" for the release in space. In this 1984 photo of the first space-free exit in astronomy, NASA's astronaut, Bruce McCandless, is at the heart of the first "field" test of a bag-in-the-bag device. Nitrogen propelled back called "Maneuvered Maneuver Unit (UM)".
25/30 Hubble looks at the busiest place in the Milky Way
This image of the Nasa Hubble Space Telescope presents the Arches group, the densest known star group of the Milky Way.
26/30 An astronaut seen from space
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman tweeted this photo of the International Space Station on September 2, 2014.
27/30 Giant relief on Mars
On Mars, we can observe four classes of sandy reliefs formed by the wind, or forms of wind beds: undulations, transverse wind ridges, dunes and what is called "draa".
28/30 Expedition 39 Landing
A sokol combination helmet can be seen against the window of the Soyuz TMA-11M capsule shortly after the shuttle landed with the shipping commander 39, Koichi Wakata of the Japanese Agency. Aerospace Exploration (JAXA), Soyuz Commander, Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos, and Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio. of NASA near the city of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan
29/30 The big red spot of Jupiter seen by Voyager I
30/30 The Chandra observatory sees a heart in the darkness
1/30 Earth of the ISS
Terry W. Virts, flight engineer of expedition 42 of the International Space Station, took this picture of the Gulf of Mexico and the US Gulf Coast at sunset.
Nasa
2/30 March frozen slopes
This image of an area of the surface of Mars, about 1.5 km by 3 km, shows frosted gullies on a slope facing south in a crater. The photo was taken by NASA's HiRISE camera, mounted on its Mars reconnaissance orbiter.
Nasa
3/30 Orion capsule splashes
The Orion capsule flew into space before returning a few hours later – after proving that it could be used someday to transport humans to Mars.
Nasa
4/30 Launch of the Soyuz TMA-15M rocket
The launch of the Soyuz TMA-15M rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Monday, November 24, 2014, bringing three new astronauts to the International Space Station. It also took caviar, ready for the inhabitants of the satellite to celebrate the holidays
Nasa
5/30 Yellowstone from the space
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman shared this image of Yellowstone via his Twitter account
Nasa
6/30 Black hole Friday
NASA celebrated Black Friday by exploring space – sharing images of black holes
Nasa
7/30 NuSTAR
The X-rays of the sun in this image show observations made by NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopy Telescope System, or NuSTAR, superimposed on a photo taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).
Nasa
8/30 Saturn
This near infrared color image shows specular reflection, or the color of the sun, on a lake of hydrocarbons named Kivu Lacus on Titan, the moon of Saturn.
Nasa
9/30 Worlds apart
Although Mimas and Pandora, represented here, orbit both around Saturn, they are very different moons. Pandora, "small" to the norms of the moon (50 miles or 81 kilometers in diameter) is elongated and irregularly shaped. Mimas (396 kilometers), a "medium-sized" moon, formed into a sphere because of its own gravity imposed by its higher mass
Nasa
10/30 Solar eruption
A solar flare of class X1.6 flashes in the middle of the sun on this image taken on September 10, captured by the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory
Nasa
11/30 Solar eruption
An image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows a solar filament 200,000 km long tearing the solar corona in September 2013.
Nasa
12/30 Cassiopeia A c
A false-color image of Cassiopeia A including data from the Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes and the Chandra X-ray observatory
Nasa
13/30 Great galaxy of magellanic clouds
Image of the galaxy of great magellanic clouds seen in infrared light by the Herschel space observatory. Regions of space such as this one are those where new stars are born from a mixture of elements and cosmic dust.
Nasa
14/30 Mars Rover Spirit
Mars Rover Spirit of NASA took the first picture of Spirit since the beginning of the communication problems a week earlier. The picture shows the robotic arm extended to the rock called Adirondack
Nasa
15/30 Aurora morning of the space station
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly captured this photograph of the aurora green lights from the International Space Station
16/30 Launching History – Making STS-41G Mission in 1984
The Space Shuttle Challenger departs from Florida at dawn. During this mission, Kathryn Sullivan became the first American woman to make a spacewalk and Marc Garneau became the first Canadian in space. The crew of seven was the largest spacecraft aboard a spacecraft at that time and STS-41G was the first to include two female astronauts.
17/30 A new perspective on an extraordinary group of galaxies
Clusters of galaxies are often described by superlatives. After all, they are huge conglomerates of galaxies, hot gases and dark matter and represent the largest structures in the universe held together by gravity.
18/30 Veil Nebula Supernova Remaining
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope unveiled in great detail a small section of the Veil Nebula – the expanding remains of a huge star that exploded about 8,000 years ago
19/30 Hubble sees a galactic sunflower
The arrangement of the spiral arms in the Messier galaxy 63, visible here in an image of the Nasa Hubble Space Telescope, recalls the motif located in the center of a sunflower.
20/30 A Hubble Cosmic Couple
The spectacular cosmic pairing of the star Hen 2-427 – more commonly known as WR 124 – and the M1-67 nebula that surrounds it
21/30 Pluto's picture
Four images of the New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) were combined with Ralph's instrument color data to create this enhanced overall color view of Pluto.
22/30 Fresh crater near Sirenum Fossae, Mars area
The HiRISE camera on NASA 's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter acquired this enlarged image of a "fresh" impact crater (at the geological scale, although quite old at the time). 39, human scale) in the region of Sirenum Fossae of Mars. This impact crater seems relatively recent because it has a clean border and well preserved ejectas.
23/30 Observations of the Earth Gemini IV in 1965
This photo of the Strait of Florida and Grand Bahama Bank was taken during the Gemini IV mission during Orbit no. 19 in 1965. The crew of the Gemini IV conducted scientific experiments, including photographs of the weather and terrain of the Earth, for the remainder of their four-day mission following the release into space Ed White's history on June 3rd.
24/30 NASA celebrates 50 years of escape into space
For 50 years, NASA "dresses" for the release in space. In this 1984 photo of the first space-free exit in astronomy, NASA's astronaut, Bruce McCandless, is at the heart of the first "field" test of a bag-in-the-bag device. Nitrogen propelled back called "Maneuvered Maneuver Unit (UM)".
25/30 Hubble looks at the busiest place in the Milky Way
This image of the Nasa Hubble Space Telescope presents the Arches group, the densest known star group of the Milky Way.
26/30 An astronaut seen from space
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman tweeted this photo of the International Space Station on September 2, 2014.
27/30 Giant relief on Mars
On Mars, we can observe four classes of sandy reliefs formed by the wind, or forms of wind beds: undulations, transverse wind ridges, dunes and what is called "draa".
28/30 Expedition 39 Landing
A sokol combination helmet can be seen against the window of the Soyuz TMA-11M capsule shortly after the shuttle landed with the shipping commander 39, Koichi Wakata of the Japanese Agency. Aerospace Exploration (JAXA), Soyuz Commander, Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos, and Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio. of NASA near the city of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan
29/30 The big red spot of Jupiter seen by Voyager I
30/30 The Chandra observatory sees a heart in the darkness
It also shows that all the systems of the spaceship are working. The photo was taken after the solar panels folded back to allow the batteries to charge. It was then relayed by the Mars Odyssey orbiter who floats around the planet and sends messages to the Earth.
Tom Hoffman, InSight's project leader at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said, "The InSight team can rest a little easier tonight now that we know the solar panels of the craft Space are deployed and recharge the batteries.
"The day was long for the team.
"But tomorrow begins an exciting new chapter for InSight: the surface operations and the beginning of the instrument deployment phase."
By using InSight's robotic arm, which is equipped with a camera, the mission team will be able to take more photos in the coming days, Nasa said.
This will help engineers to determine where to install the spacecraft 's scientific instruments, which will begin to send data back to Earth within two to three months.
The InSight lander landed on Mars shortly before 20h GMT on Monday, surviving the so-called "seven minutes of terror", a delicate landing phase for the robotic probe, traveling at 13,200 mph in the slender atmosphere of the planet that provides little friction to slow down.
This 8-year mission, valued at $ 814 million (633 million pounds), by the US Space Agency, aims to shed new light on the formation of the Red Planet and on its deep structure by mapping its core, crust and mantle.
InSight arrived in the Elysium Planitia area of Mars, north of its equator, described as an ideal location for its flat surface and without rocks.
This is the first attempt to reach Mars over six years.
Only 40% of the missions on the planet were successful and all were led by the United States.
Three UK-made seismometer instruments are on board in InSight, as part of a British Space Agency effort to measure seismic waves, a value of £ 4 million.
Scientists from Imperial College London and the University of Oxford, who created the instruments, will be based at NASA's NASA reaction propulsion laboratory in California to participate in the event. 39 study, including selecting the best place for the robotic arm where to place the seismometer.
"This is great news that the InSight spacecraft has safely landed on Mars," said Sue Horne, space exploration chief at the British Space Agency.
"British scientists and engineers participating in this mission have dedicated many years of their life to building the seismometer, and the descent is still a worrying time.
"We can now look forward to the deployment of the instrument and the data that will arrive for next year, to improve our understanding of the formation of the planet.
A second instrument will dig five meters into Mars's soil, measuring the temperature of the planet, while a third experiment will determine how Mars is wobbling on its axis.
Additional report by the press association
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