NASA and the German Aerospace Center have announced the end of the Mole's mission on Mars. The Martian soil refused to cooperate with the instrument.
It’s always a sad day when a mission comes to an end. And it’s even sadder when the mission never really got going in the first place.). It’s an instrument designed to measure the heat flowing from the Martian interior to the surface. The entire InSight mission was focused on discovering more about the interior of Mars.is probably the most important and complicated instrument on the lander. So losing it is a big blow to science.
From the beginning of its deployment in March 2019, the Mole has faced problems. At first it made some progress, but after penetrating a few centimeters it stopped. Initially, mission personnel thought it was blocked by a rock. Mission personnel tried everything to supply the missing friction. They used the instrument arm scoop to press down on the Mole. They used it to provide sideways pressure on the Mole. And they used it to try to scoop the needed soil into the hole. Each method provided some hope, but in the end, the Mole couldn’t get deep enough to do science.
“Fortunately, we’ve learned a lot that will benefit future missions that attempt to dig into the subsurface,” said Spohn. This artist’s concept from August 2015 depicts NASA’s InSight Mars lander fully deployed for studying the deep interior of Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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