M
Mike Wehner
Guest
NASA's InSight lander has been chilling out on Mars for many months now. NASA has had an incredible string of luck with its Mars missions and unfortunately, it's looking increasingly like InSight will prove to be one of the more troublesome missions that the space agency has ever launched to the Red Planet. You'd think a lander mission would be a great deal easier to pull off than a rover adventure, but InSight has proven us all wrong on that front.
It's not that InSight has been an overall failure, but the mission has seen more than its share of challenges. The shortcomings of the self-hammering "mole" tool that was supposed to bury itself in the Martian surface but has now been given up on were a real shame, and now NASA is trying to work out how it can more accurately detect quakes on Mars in the midst of shifting weather. In a new post by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the InSight team reveals what it's doing to calm things down... and it's hilarious.
Today's Top Deal
Crazy Amazon coupon gets you best-selling Wi-Fi smart plugs for just $2.10 each!
Price: $8.39
You Save: $19.60 (70%)
Coupon Code: SPXNK4C6 (by 4/17)
Buy Now
Continue reading...
Today's Top Deals
- Amazon coupon gets you a 2K camera drone that folds up as small as a smartphone for $60
- Crazy Amazon sale gets you an Alexa smart speaker for just $17
- Viral TikTok reveals a $23 Amazon find that will blow your mind
Trending Right Now:
- If you have this bottled water, stop drinking it immediately
- 4th stimulus checks are unlikely – here’s what we might get instead
- New stimulus check for the unemployed might be coming in May
NASA is dumping dirt on its InSight lander on purpose originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 1 Apr 2021 at 20:22:23 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Via BRG - Boy Genius Report