NASA’s Insight lander starts digging into surface of Mars | Technology News, The Indian Express

NASA’s Insight lander starts digging into surface of Mars | Technology News, The Indian Express

By Tech Desk |New Delhi |Updated: October 19, 2019 9:39:35 am

NASA’s Insight lander starts digging into surface of Mars

NASA's InSight lander has dug nearly 2 centimetres (3/4 of an inch) into the Martian surface with the help of its heat probe called "the mole". The procedure was done with the robotic arm of the spacecraft, which holds the heat probe.

NASA InSight’s heat probe, or “mole,” is seen digging about a centimeter (half an inch) below the surface last week. (Image source: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

NASA’s InSight lander has dug nearly 2 centimetres (3/4 of an inch) into the surface of Mars with the help of its heat probe called “the mole”, the US space agency has announced. The procedure was done with the robotic arm of the spacecraft, which holds the heat probe. It dug down the ground to determine the amount of heat that is escaping from the interior of the neighbouring planet.