Mars InSight Landing Visualization

This video shows a rendering of the successful landing sequence of the Mars InSight lander on November 26th, 2018. Everything, with the exception of the precise landing location inside the landing ellipse, shown in this video is accurate data, including the features of the Martian surface in the landing area. The movement of the spacecraft is based on a projected descent and the preprogrammed event schedule prior to the landing event, the surface terrain is based on a combination of the Viking Image Mosaic (https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/search/details/Mars/Viking/MDIM21/Mars_Viking_MDIM21_ClrMosaic_global_232m/cub) and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's CTX and HiRISE cameras (https://mars.nasa.gov/mro/mission/instruments/ctx/, https://mars.nasa.gov/mro/mission/instruments/hirise/). All data was used to render this visualization using the open-source software OpenSpace.
The content is rendered using the open-source Astrovisualization framework OpenSpace (http://openspaceproject.com , https://github.com/OpenSpace/OpenSpace) which is a collaboration between Linköping University, the American Museum of Natural History, Goddard's Community Coordinated Modeling Center, New York University, and the University of Utah.

This video is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Видео Mars InSight Landing Visualization канала OpenSpace