NASA has given up on its 'Mars mole,' a revolutionary experiment designed to burrow 16 feet and take the planet's temperature

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15 Jan 2021 0 shares 1 views

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Published 15 Jan 2021

The InSight lander's heat probe got stuck in clumpy Martian soil. NASA scientists spent two years trying to free it before calling it quits.

NASA declares the Mars InSight digger dead after two years

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