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NASA InSight’s ‘Mole’ Is Out of Sight – Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Now that the heat probe is just below the Martian surface, InSight’s arm will scoop some additional soil on top to help it keep digging so it can take Mars’ tem…
Now that the heat probe is just below the Martian surface, InSight’s arm will scoop some additional soil on top to help it keep digging so it can take Mars’ temperature.
NASA’s InSight lander continues working to get its “mole”
– a 16-inch-long (40-centimeter-long) pile driver and heat probe – deep below
the surface of Mars. A camera on InSight’s arm recently took images of the now
partially filled-in “mole hole,” showing only the device’s science
tether protruding from the ground.
Sensor…
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