NASA's spacecraft, InSight, landed on Mars Monday. NASA's spacecraft that landed on Mars Monday has beamed back its first clear photo of the desolate Red Planet. Looking forward to exploring my new home," NASA tweeted late Monday, hours after its new InSight lander touched down. The image came after the rover had earlier sent back a somewhat blurry photo. The space agency said that in the interim the spacecraft had opened its solar panels, which allowed it to recharge its batteries for the mission.

Earlier today the Insight lander successfully touched down on Mars, and it's already crushing the'gram. Signals indicating that its solar panels had opened and were generating power came back to Earth at about 8:30 PM ET, along with a few photographs relayed via another visitor to Mars: the Odyssey orbiter. While it's expected to take two to three months to fully deploy the lander's instruments, this image came from its Instrument Deployment Camera which is mounted on a robotic arm. After a long flight, and thrilling #MarsLanding, it feels great to get a good stretch and recharge my batteries. It's just what I'll need to really start getting in tune with #Mars.