They sent 2 cube sats with this one. Maybe next time they'll send one with a camera on it. Would be really cool see the 7 minutes of hell to land one of those things
Watched the landing yesterday and something seemed kind of interesting. All official pics and movies have shown Mars with red-ish dirt and lighter red sky. IMO, the InSight first pic showed a bluish color horizon and I believe even the announcers said look at the blue horizon. Maybe something for the conspiracy theorist.
It looks exactly like every other time we have taken a photo from the surface. Slightly reddish to yellowish brown at noon, blue at sunset/sunrise. But also keep in mind the images are balanced to provide contrast for the human eye, altering the coloring a little from what it would be in-person. Google pics from 98 and the mid 2000's. The color of things on venus is not known because virtually all blue light is filtered out before reaching the surface, so surface color images are not even remotely capturing images within the light spectrum enjoyed on the surface of Earth. Raleigh scattering is what gives a sky it's perceived color, and the material doing the scattering matters.
This is what caught my eye. Left pic snipped from live coverage. Right, same pic from NASA website. Kinda strange.
Again, filtering, brightness, and contrast. You can do that with any and every image. Left one raw, right one adjusted for brightness and contrast. Your eyes do it for you every time you go from outside to inside or vice versa.
