NASA Is Giving Up on Their Mars Mole | SciShow News

This week in news, the Insight rover's Mole apparatus called it quits, and research reported their findings on the first ever observed intergalactic binaries.

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Sources:

https://www.sdss.org/press-releases/a-giant-meal-for-a-dwarf/

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-insight-s-mole-ends-its-journey-on-mars
https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8612/mars-insight-lander-to-push-on-top-of-the-mole/
https://www.dlr.de/blogs/en/all-blog-posts/The-InSight-mission-logbook.aspx

Image Sources:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artist%E2%80%99s_impression_of_eclipsing_binary.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Small_Magellanic_Cloud_(Digitized_Sky_Survey_2).jpg
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1230/
https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1505a/
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/wdac.jpg
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/2172/type-ia-supernova/
https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/7613/artists-concept-of-insight-lander-on-mars/?site=insight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20cxOCcOIP4&feature=emb_logo