InSight: First photo of Elysium Planitia

C000M0000_596533559EDR_F0000_0106M_Elysium Planitia, as seen through a dust-spattered dust cover. Click the image to enlarge it.

NASA’s InSight Mars lander acquired this image of the area in front of the lander using its lander-mounted, Instrument Context Camera (ICC).

This image was acquired on November 26, 2018, Sol 0 of the InSight mission where the local mean solar time for the image exposures was 13:34:21. Each ICC image has a field of view of 124 x 124 degrees.

Raw images (in .PNG format) here.

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