NASA’s InSight mission team on Wednesday stated that Captain Kirk does not need to worry about anything. This message was given in reply to Captain Kirk posted his query on Twitter. William Shatner, Captain Kirk from Star Trek had an important question for the space agency. He had a question about the unusual glow that could be seen from the image that was sent from Mars.

William Shatner better known as Captain Kirk after seeing a NASA GIF image tweeted “What is the shiny bluish light to the right?” The image which Shatner saw was InSinght lander’s seismometer alighting into position on the surface of the Red Planet. He saw that the blue light to have appeared in quiet a lot of the pictures that were sent back by the Lander.

The space agency, NASA thought that it would be better if an explanation was provided for it. The agency stated the blue light that could be seen in the images is nothing but lens flare, i.e. a phenomenon where light gets dispersed or flickered in a lens system, as the sun gets immerses low on the horizon. The agency pointed that the photos used for the seismometer GIF was taken just before the sunset. In order to explain ‘lens flare’ in a better way, mention of the renowned director JJ Abrams was made. Abrams is known to use lens flare in science-fiction movies.

The robotic lander, InSight, which has been designed to study the deep interior of the Red Planet Mars successfully landed on the Red Planet on 26th November, 2018. After landing, it has started its job to study the interior of planet Mars, and also take a note of marsquakes with the seismometer. NASA is hopeful that it would be able to learn even more the way through which the rocky planet was formed.

The spectacular blue lens flare is just one more feature in a long list of strange Mars sightings that surprisingly have harmless explanations.

The InSight team is making the tweets in first person as if the Lander itself is framing the messages. Hence, the exchange of messages between Captain Kirk and the Mars machine makes it more engaging.