Mole on the Move on Mars InSight Lander

This GIF shows NASA InSight’s heat probe, or “mole,” digging about a centimeter (half an inch) below the surface last week. Using a technique called “pinning,” InSight recently pressed against the mole using a scoop on its robotic arm to help the self-hammering heat probe dig so that it can “take the temperature” of Mars. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Ken Kremer – 25 October 2019

For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM 

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL- The German Mole is on the move at last on Mars on NASA’s InSight lander after a lot of hard work by engineers on both sides of the Atlantic have has finally paid off trying to save the stuck deep penetrating heat probe on the agency’s spacecraft designed explore the deep interior of Mars - since successfully soft landing last November.

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https://www.spaceupclose.com/2019/10/mole-on-the-move-on-mars-insight-lander/