{"id":586866,"date":"2019-03-04T11:05:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T15:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=18316f44ad913a506e8ad9d050aec00a"},"modified":"2019-03-04T11:05:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T15:05:46","slug":"good-luck-moleexperiment-starts-hammering-into-the-martian-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=586866","title":{"rendered":"Good luck &#8216;Mole&#8217;&mdash;experiment starts hammering into the Martian soil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 28 February 2019, &#8216;Mole&#8217; fully automatically hammered its way into the Martian subsurface for the first time. In a first step, it penetrated to a depth between 18 and 50 centimetres into the Martian soil with 4000 hammer blows over a period of four hours. &#8220;On its way into the depths, the mole seems to have hit a stone, tilted about 15 degrees and pushed it aside or passed it,&#8221; reports Tilman Spohn, Principal Investigator of the HP3 experiment. &#8220;The Mole then worked its way up against another stone at an advanced depth until the planned four-hour operating time of the first sequence expired. Tests on Earth showed that the rod-shaped penetrometer is able to push smaller stones to the side, which is very time-consuming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 28 February 2019, &#8216;Mole&#8217; fully automatically hammered its way into the Martian subsurface for the first time. In a first step, it penetrated to a depth between 18 and 50 centimetres into the Martian soil with 4000 hammer blows over a period of four &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=586866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586867,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586866\/revisions\/586867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=586866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}