InSight 'Mole' payload ends operations on Mars

InSight 'Mole' payload ends operations on Mars

Space Daily

Published

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 15, 2021

The heat probe developed and built by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and deployed on Mars by NASA's InSight lander has ended its portion of the mission. Since Feb. 28, 2019, the probe, called the "mole," has been attempting to burrow into the Martian surface to take the planet's internal temperature, providing details about the interior heat engine that drives the Mars' evolution and geology.

Full Article