HiRISE | Revisiting InSight (ESP_082877

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona

Revisiting InSight
ESP_082877_1845 Science Theme:

The InSight lander operated from 2018 to 2022, measuring quakes on the Martian surface. HiRISE continues to follow up on old landing sites like this (some even going back to the 1970s).

InSight landed in a dusty area and eventually was coated in enough dust to make it difficult to discern in HiRISE images like this one. The landing itself also blew dust off a larger area and that dark surface marking has gradually been fading away with time too.

We take these follow up images of InSight to estimate how quickly dust accumulates here. This helps scientists understand how young other surface disturbances like fresh impact craters might be too.

Written by: Shane Byrne (22 May 2024)

Acquisition date
01 April 2024

Local Mars time
15:39

Latitude (centered)
4.486°

Longitude (East)
135.618°

Spacecraft altitude
272.8 km (169.5 miles)

Original image scale range
from 27.3 cm/pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) to 54.6 cm/pixel (with 2 x 2 binning)

Map projected scale
25 cm/pixel and North is up

Map projection
Equirectangular

Emission angle
0.9°

Phase angle
57.8°

Solar incidence angle
59°, with the Sun about 31° above the horizon

Solar longitude
227.6°, Northern Autumn

For non-map projected images
North azimuth: 97°
Sub-solar azimuth: 340.8°

JPEG
Black and white
map projected  non-map

IRB color
map projected  non-map

Merged IRB
map projected

Merged RGB
map projected

RGB color
non-map projected

JP2
Black and white
map-projected   (543MB)

IRB color
map-projected   (193MB)

JP2 EXTRAS
Black and white
map-projected (286MB)
non-map           (443MB)

IRB color
map projected (83MB)
non-map           (197MB)

Merged IRB
map projected (172MB)

Merged RGB
map-projected (168MB)

RGB color
non map           (185MB)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
B&W label
Color label
Merged IRB label
Merged RGB label
EDR products
HiView

NB
IRB: infrared-red-blue
RGB: red-green-blue
About color products (PDF)

Black & white is 5 km across; enhanced color about 1 km
For scale, use JPEG/JP2 black & white map-projected images

USAGE POLICY
All of the images produced by HiRISE and accessible on this site are within the public domain: there are no restrictions on their usage by anyone in the public, including news or science organizations. We do ask for a credit line where possible:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona

POSTSCRIPT
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The HiRISE camera was built by Ball Aerospace and Technology Corporation and is operated by the University of Arizona.