The Mars mole just couldn't dig itself down as far as scientists wanted it to go. Credit: nasa / jpl-caltech From the robots that fail miserably at their jobs to the robots dealing with our literal ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Mole Digging Mole Digging is a puzzle game where you guide a mole to dig through all tiles in a single stroke. Start at the flag, pass through flags 1 and 2 ...

Digging a little deeper -The mole has moved further down. With help from @NASAJPL and @DLR_en, my latest efforts to help the heat probe seem to be working. More ...

NASA has a new plan to get its Mars "mole" digging again. The agency's InSight lander touched down on the Red Planet last November, tasked with mapping the Martian interior in unprecedented detail.

Mars is a harsh world compared to Earth — and even robots struggle to thrive there. One such example is the small heat probe that recently ventured to the Red Planet with NASA’s InSight lander. The ...

NASA has been desperately trying to use the “mole” attached its InSight Mars lander to bury into the Martian soil for more than 17 long months, but progress has been slow. The Martian soil composition ...