Minutes after touching down on Mars, NASA’s InSight spacecraft sent back a “nice and dirty” snapshot of its new digs. Yet the dust-speckled image looked like a work of art to scientists. The photo (above, courtesy of NASA) revealed a mostly smooth and sandy terrain around the spacecraft with only one sizable rock visible.
Another photo taken by its robotic arm-mounted camera after it landed on the planet shows a close-up of the spacecraft itself.