NASA's InSight 'mole' hits a snag - or rather a rock
The Insight lander’s HP3 probe, also referred to as the “mole”, has been designed to dig up to 16 feet into the ground, and came on line on February 28. However, alarm bells have sounded back on Earth after controllers realised no actual progress was being made, despite continual hammering. Subsequent analysis suggested the mole, which measures just 16 inches in length, has scarcely got out of the tube which was guiding its descent to the planet’s surface.
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