Going, going, gone…
@NASAInsight’s "mole," a 16-inch-long (40-cm-long) pile driver & heat probe, is now just below the Martian surface. The lander's arm will scoop more soil on top to help it dig deeper in order to take Mars' temperature.
http://go.nasa.gov/3423XMO pic.twitter.com/spKSuSWZdk
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So is it successfully digging itself now, without needed to be pushed by the arm?
Now that the mole is fully embedded in the soil, we will use the scoop to scrape additional soil on top of it, tamping down this soil to help provide more friction. It will take months to pack down enough soil, the mole isn't expected to resume hammering until early 2021.
