• Two images stacked on top of each other. The top image is a grey topographical picture showing a red circle on a smooth patch in the center. The bottom picture is a red image with a circle around what appears to be a rover landed on Mars.
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    Fig. 1. (a) The InSight lander (red box) in the quasi-circular 27 m-diameter Homestead hollow degraded impact crater (red dashed circle) in western Elysium Planitia, Mars. The lander is 6 m measured across the solar panels, Yellow box shows location of (b). Subframe of HiRISE color ESP_036761_1845 (0.25 m/pixel). (b) Color view of InSight lander in Homestead hollow (red dashed circle) and numerous other hollows (white dotted circles) in the immediate vicinity. Red line cutting across the hollow is the boundary between occurrence of relatively few rocks to the east versus ~3X more rocks in the region to the west dubbed “Rocky Field”. Landing rockets removed dust from the immediate surface and caused the bright zone and surrounding dark halo around the lander.

  • Two images stacked on top of each other. The top image is a grey topographical picture showing a red circle on a smooth patch in the center. The bottom picture is a red image with a circle around what appears to be a rover landed on Mars.

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