insight lander
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Hell Yes, InSight’s Heat Probe Is Now Completely Buried on Mars
There’s some happy news to report from the Red Planet, as the stubborn Mars InSight heat probe, known as “the mole,” is now completely buried. It’s an encouraging development, as the surrounding dirt could coax the device into drilling deeper through the Martian crust.
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NASA’s Plan To Rescue InSight’s Stuck Heat Probe Appears To Be Working
After being stuck for months, the InSight lander’s heat probe has managed to dig down a few centimetres into the Martian dirt. It’s a positive sign that the probe didn’t hit a rock as engineers originally feared and that a newly devised strategy to remedy the situation is actually working.
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Possible Marsquake Detected By NASA’s InSight Lander
Using its ultra-sensitive seismometer, NASA’s InSight lander has waited patiently to detect its first marsquake. Scientists now have good reason to believe it finally happened.
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Good News From Mars: The InSight Lander Is On Track To Start Collecting Data Next Month
The U.S. government may be in partial shutdown mode, but operations to configure instruments critical to NASA’s InSight mission on Mars are right on schedule—and things are going swimmingly, as the latest mission update attests.