NASA is giving up on its Mars mole — a pile driver designed to hammer its way as deep as 16 feet below the Martian surface — after two years of trying to dig past cementlike soil. Now the InSight ...

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NASA has pulled the plug on its InSight lander’s Mars mole, more than two years after the lander touched down at Elysium Planitia. The German-built Mars mole heat probe could simply never penetrate ...