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Mars digger bites the dust after two years – The New Daily
The InSight lander’s Mars digger has been declared dead after “the mole” failed to dig deep enough to take the Red Planet’s temperature.
NASA has declared the Mars digger dead after it joined a host of spacecraft to have tried to uncover the red planet’s secrets and lost.
Scientists in Germany spent two years trying to get their heat probe, dubbed the mole, to drill into the Martian crust and take its temperature.
The lander itself is still operational and studying shaking of the surface or interior of the planet, known as Marsquakes.
But the 41cm-long device that is part of NASA’s InSight lander could not gain enough friction in…
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