NASA's InSight lander shares its first photos from the surface of Mars

Photo via NASA/JPL-Caltech/Lockheed Martin, used under Public Domain It took six months and more than 300 million miles, but NASA's InSight lander is now safe and sound on the surface of Mars and transmitting back the first bits of data to scientists here on Earth. Among the first observations sent back to Earth from Mars is a collection of 1-megapixel photos captured with its onboard Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC). The images, which were transmitted by relaying the data to NASA's Odyssey or...