The ‘mole’ on Mars will dig no more, NASA says – Space.com

A Martian “mole” will stop its valiant attempts to dig on the Red Planet.
After it landed in 2018, NASA’s InSight spacecraft’s heat probe, or “mole,” dealt with friction problems
as investigators worked to tryand learn more about the internal heat sources powering Mars. When the mole burrowed in, however, it would bounce back off of the unexpectedly hard regolith (or soil).
NASA announced
Thursday (Jan. 14) that the German Aerospace Center (DLR)-built mole would abandon its historic mission to…

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