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Headline: InSight Lander Spotted on Mars

Caption: NASA's InSight spacecraft, its heat shield and its parachute were imaged on Dec. 6 and 11 by the HiRISE camera onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. In images released Thursday (13 Dec), the three new features on the Martian landscape appear teal. That's not their actual colour: Light reflected off their surfaces cause the colour to be saturated. The ground around the lander is dark, blasted by its retrorockets during descent. Look carefully for a butterfly shape, and you can make out the lander's solar panels on either side.

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