NASA has given up on its 'Mars mole,' a revolutionary experiment designed to burrow 16 feet and take the planet's temperature

NASA has given up on its 'Mars mole,' a revolutionary experiment designed to burrow 16 feet and take the planet's temperature
mmcfalljohnsen@businessinsider.com (Morgan McFall-Johnsen)
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The InSight lander's heat probe, or "mole," poking out of the hole where it got stuck on October 26, 2019. NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA is giving up on its Mars mole — a pile driver designed to hammer its way up to 16 feet below the Martian surface — after two years of trying to dig past cement-like soil.
Now the InSight lander won't be able to take Mars' internal temperature. 
The probe's data would have helped piece together the planet's history and its potential for microbial life.

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