NASA’s InSight rover has given the weather reports, images and other interesting findings to the American space agency on Mars. However, it strived to penetrate into its surface.
The land rover, InSight has dug only 14 inches on the surface of the red planet, Mars, even though it was configured to reach at least 16 feet from the surface to investigate how heat escapes from the interior environment.
This lapse has come down to InSight’s ‘mole’ heat probe’s failure to keep its hold in the soil. According to NASA, the land rover is just bouncing in place.
InSight, NASA’s $1 billion rover landed on Mars in November 2018. Before landing on Mars, it travelled through space for seven months.
Moreover, InSight is a key player in the Mars mission, still, it has failed to investigate the planet’s interior. However, NASA believes that they will find out why the self-hammering probe is not functioning well due to which plan is not executing as per the planning.
‘We’re going to try pressing the side of the scoop against the mole, pinning it to the wall of its hole,’ InSight deputy principal investigator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California informed. He also added that ‘This might increase friction enough to keep it moving forward when mole hammering resumes. The team has also found that the location where InSight is currently digging is nothing like it has encountered on the mission, as it is cemented together and much thicker.’
