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InSight lander in assembly

InSight lander in assembly
InSight lander in assembly The InSight lander in assembly and test at Lockheed Martin in Denver earlier this year. Notice the landing legs and the large deployable solar arrays. The seismometer housing itself is the copper-colored hexagonal box on the deck : once it is placed on the ground by a robot arm, the arm will place the wind shield – the silver 'wok lid' over it to reduce the wind noise background. Lockheed Martin