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Successful ForeSight placement of the wind and thermal shield

Successful ForeSight placement of the wind and thermal shield
Successful ForeSight placement of the wind and thermal shield Testbed lead Marleen Sundgaard is pleased with the placement of the wind and thermal shield over ForeSight's model of its seismometer at JPL, as Nythi (Ned) Udomkesmalee looks on. After this successful test, InSight's engineers were ready to command InSight to proceed with the same activity on Mars, which InSight completed on 2 February. NASA / JPL-Caltech / IPGP