{"id":647158,"date":"2020-02-21T14:45:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T18:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=647158"},"modified":"2020-02-21T14:45:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T18:45:22","slug":"mars-insight-lander-to-push-on-top-of-the-mole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=647158","title":{"rendered":"Mars InSight lander to push on top of the &#039;mole&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly a year of trying to dig into the Martian surface, the heat probe belonging to NASA&#8217;s InSight lander is about to get a push. The mission team plans to command the scoop on InSight&#8217;s robotic arm to press down on the &#8220;mole,&#8221; the mini pile driver designed to hammer itself as much as 16 feet (5 meters) down. They hope that pushing down on the mole&#8217;s top, also called the back cap, will keep it from backing out of its hole on Mars, as it did twice in recent months after nearly burying itself.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-02-mars-insight-lander-mole.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Mars InSight lander to push on top of the &#8216;mole&#8217;<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly a year of trying to dig into the Martian surface, the heat probe belonging to NASA&#8217;s InSight lander is about to get a push. The mission team plans&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647158","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=647158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647158\/revisions"}],"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=647158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}