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InSight Mars lander calibration target

The target, which will be viewed by InSight's cameras, provides a variety of colors and shapes to help calibrate the lander's cameras. It also shows off international flags representing the agencies, institutions and participating scientists of the mission as of late 2014 (since that time, Italy has contributed an experiment). In the second row are the United States flag and the logos of NASA, the French space agency CNES, which provided InSight's seismometer; and the German Aerospace Center DLR, which provided InSight's heat flow probe. Dots along the left and right sides of the target include a hidden message, "JPL" in Braille. PIA22540 image credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/Lockheed Martin Space