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Title    NASA Declares Mars Lander InSight's Burrowing 'Mole' is Dead
Date    Friday January 15 2021, @04:34PM
Author    Fnord666
Topic   
from the RIP dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=21/01/15/047250

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:

NASA declares Mars lander InSight's burrowing 'mole' is dead:

Here's to all the plucky machines that have tangled with Mars and ultimately lost. Goodbye, Opportunity. Godspeed, Beagle 2. We hardly knew you, Schiaparelli. And now we must bid farewell to the "mole" part of NASA's InSight lander mission.

The lander itself is fine and healthy and still studying marsquakes, but the mole's efforts to dig into the red planet have been stymied every step of the way. On Thursday, NASA announced the end of the mole's journey.

[...] "We've given it everything we've got, but Mars and our heroic mole remain incompatible," said HP3 principal investigator, Tilman Spohn of the DLR. "Fortunately, we've learned a lot that will benefit future missions that attempt to dig into the subsurface."

Original Submission

Links
  1. "upstart" - https://soylentnews.org/~upstart/
  2. "NASA declares Mars lander InSight's burrowing 'mole' is dead" - https://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-declares-mars-lander-insights-burrowing-mole-is-dead/
  3. "all the plucky machines that have tangled with Mars" - https://www.cnet.com/news/heres-every-place-weve-landed-or-crashed-on-mars/
  4. "Opportunity" - https://www.cnet.com/news/this-painting-of-nasas-late-mars-rover-opportunity-might-make-you-sob/
  5. "Schiaparelli" - https://www.cnet.com/news/mars-exomars-lander-crash-schiaparelli-esa-nasa/
  6. "InSight" - https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/make/honda/model/insight/
  7. "marsquakes" - https://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-mars-lander-discovers-deep-quakes-rock-the-red-planet/
  8. "NASA announced the end of the mole's journey" - https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-insight-s-mole-ends-its-journey-on-mars
  9. "said HP3 principal investigator, Tilman Spohn of the DLR" - https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-insight-s-mole-ends-its-journey-on-mars
  10. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=46760
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