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Mike Wehner
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- NASA's InSight mission to Mars has returned a lot of valuable data, but one of its instruments has fallen well short of expectations.
- The self-hammering "mole" tool was supposed to burrow deep beneath the Martian surface, but it's failed miserably.
- After months and months of trial and error, NASA is officially giving up on the mole and has decided to stop messing with it.
NASA has a long history of overperforming on the Red Planet. Its rovers have performed so well that some of them have lasted for years and even decades longer than they were designed to. That's pretty awesome, but inevitably there will times when things don't quite go the way that NASA planned.
The Mars InSight mission is one of those times. Now, to be totally clear, much of what the InSight lander has accomplished during its time on Mars has been great. Most of its instruments and tools have performed exactly as intended. However, if you've read anything about InSight over the past year or so, it's probably because of one of its tools that just hasn't done its job: the self-hammering "mole" tool.
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