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Mars digger bites the dust after two years – Shepparton News
NASA has declared the Mars digger dead after it failed to burrow deep into the red planet to take its temperature.Scientists in Germany spent two years trying to get their heat probe, dubbed the mole, to drill into the Martian crust.
But the 41cm-long device that is part of NASA’s InSight lander could not gain enough friction in the red dirt.
It was supposed to bury five metres into Mars but only drilled down about 60cm.
Following one last unsuccessful attempt to hammer itself down at the weekend…
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