Here's What Mars Looks Like Now to a Tiny Cubesat Chasing NASA's InSight Lander

Here's What Mars Looks Like Now to a Tiny Cubesat Chasing NASA's InSight Lander

PASADENA, Calif. — A tiny cubesat cruising through interplanetary space has captured a new glimpse of Mars, just before watching NASA's InSight lander  touch down the Red Planet.

The cubesat, one of two Mars Cube One probes (called MarCO for short) snapped the Mars photo on Saturday (Nov. 24). That's two days before the InSight probe is due to land on the plains of Elysium Planitia Monday (Nov. 26) to study the interior of Mars.