One of the main things that the NASA InSight lander planned to do on Mars was deploy its seismometer to record seismic activity on the planet (of course). So, shortly after landed, it has done that.
This article has an animation of the deployment:
NASA's InSight Places First Instrument on Mars
Almost incidentally, this happens to be the first time a seismometer has been placed on the surface of another planet, and yesterday (as I write this) was the 50th anniversary of the first time human beings were in orbit around another body in the Solar System, which in this case is the Apollo 8 mission that orbited the Moon.
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| InSight's seismometer touches down |
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