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InSight Aeroshell Coming Together
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The heat shield is suspended above the rest of the InSight spacecraft in this image taken July 13, 2015, in a spacecraft assembly clean room at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver. The gray cone is the back shell, which together with the heat shield forms a protective aeroshell around the stowed InSight lander. The photo was taken during preparation for vibration testing of the spacecraft.
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Credit lineInSight Aeroshell Coming Together. NASA/JPL, 2015-08-18. Public domain. ID: PIA19814.
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