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Unexpected soil conditions force NASA to abandon key InSight lander objective – TechSpot
NASA has waived the white flag on one of its lander projects, conceding that the Martian surface simply didn’t react to the tool as intended.
In brief: The overall goal of the mission is to study the interior of Mars, and one of the tools that was supposed to help in this endeavor was a heat probe nicknamed the mole. The 16-inch-long pile driver is tethered to the lander and has temperature sensors embedded within. NASA aimed to use the tool to burrow down into the Martian surface to a minimum depth of at least 10 feet and record temperature data, but it simply wasnt meant to be.
NASA has waived the white flag on one of its lander projects,…
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