NASA has a new plan to get its Mars "mole" digging again. The agency's InSight lander touched down on the Red Planet last November, tasked with mapping the Martian interior in unprecedented detail.

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Digging a little deeper -The mole has moved further down. With help from @NASAJPL and @DLR_en, my latest efforts to help the heat probe seem to be working. More ...

“When the Mole first started digging, I was ecstatic. ‘Yes! We’re actually going to make it down!’ Then it popped out [of the hole].” Troy Lee Hudson sighs. He’s the Jet Propulsion Lab scientist and ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Every day, the InSight lander’s suite of instruments sends back ...

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NASA's InSight mission to Mars has been successful on a number of fronts, but there's no denying that there's been one very big disappointment: the mole. A self-burying instrument designed to hammer ...

The Mars mole just couldn't dig itself down as far as scientists wanted it to go. Credit: nasa / jpl-caltech From the robots that fail miserably at their jobs to the robots dealing with our literal ...

NASA’s latest Mars lander is having problems with one of its main instruments — a self-hammering probe that just can’t seem to hammer itself into the interplanetary dirt. Over the weekend, the probe ...

Q: I have mole mounds in my lawn. I went out this morning to enjoy the sunrise as I sipped my coffee, and the first thing I spotted was a mole mound right in the middle of my lawn. How can I get rid ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Mole Digging Mole Digging is a puzzle game where you guide a mole to dig through all tiles in a single stroke. Start at the flag, pass through flags 1 and 2 ...