LOS ANGELES, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- The HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recently sent home eye-catching views of NASA's InSight lander and its Curiosity rover, said a release of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on Wednesday.
HiRISE has been monitoring InSight's landing site in the Elysium Planitia region of the Red Planet for changes to the surface, such as dust-devil tracks, according to JPL.
The new image, taken on Sept. 23 at an altitude of 272 km above the Martian surface, is NASA's best view yet of InSight from space.
It clearly shows the two circular solar panels on either side of the lander body, spanning 20 feet (6 meters) from end to end, said JPL.
HiRISE has also been keeping tabs on NASA's Curiosity, which is roughly 600 km from InSight, exploring a region called "the clay-bearing unit."
A GIF released on Wednesday showed Curiosity as a gray speck as it traveled 337 meters from the location called "Woodland Bay" to "Sandside Harbor" within "the clay-bearing unit" between May 31 and July 20, said JPL.
