ForeSight’s Grapple

ForeSight, a fully functional, full-size model of NASA's InSight lander, grasps a model of the lander's Wind and Thermal Shield while engineer Maggie Williams looks on. This testing was done at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
December 18, 2018
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech/IPGP
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ForeSight, a fully functional, full-size model of NASA's InSight, grasps a model of the lander's Wind and Thermal Shield while engineer Maggie Williams looks on. This testing was done at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Williams is wearing sunglasses to block the bright yellow lights in the test space, which mimic sunlight as it appears on Mars.

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