
Engineers in Pasadena, California, sculpt a gravel-like material to mimic the terrain in front of NASA's InSight lander on Mars. Recreating the exact conditions will allow them to practice setting down the lander's instruments here on Earth (at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory) before it's done on Mars. https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA22879
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PIA22879
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December 18, 2018
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JPL
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