An illustration of NASA's InSight spacecraft after the deployment of its major instruments, a process that won't be completed until a few months after landing. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech THE WOODLANDS, ...

enigneers have moved InSight's robotic arm into position to push down on the mole in the latest effort to get the probe burrowing into the surface again. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech WASHINGTON — After ...

NASA has announced that the Insight Mars lander has run into an issue with one of its instruments. The instrument is the heat flow probe, also known as the mole. In an image that NASA released, the ...

NASA’s Insight Mars lander came prepared with a number of instruments to explore the interior of the Red Planet. One of them is a heat flow probe built by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to burrow ...

Maybe today you need a little bit of good news. Well, we’ve got some: The Mars InSight heat flow probe seems to be descending into the planet once again. On Friday, the NASA InSight team tweeted: A ...