NASA gives up trying to burrow under Mars surface with 'mole' probe
NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s “mole” on Mars has failed. After nearly two years of attempting to dig the InSight lander’s heat probe – nicknamed the mole – into the Red Planet’s surface, engineers have finally given up. The InSight lander arrived on Mars in November 2018. Its main purpose is to study the planet’s deep interior in order to help us understand the history of the solar system’s rocky worlds. The lander has three main instruments to help it do that: a seismometer to catc...
Tilman Spohn Properties Package German Aerospace Center Red Planet Heat Flow Physical Properties Package
Source: newscientist.com