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Hot on the heels of a mission extension comes information that scientists enjoy now given up on attempts to manual the NASA InSight lander's "mole" to burrow bigger than a pair of centimetres beneath the Martian surface. Despite repeated attempts since February 2019, the mole has failed to retain out the depth an indispensable to conduct the specified science. The instrument hammered itself to a depth of roughly 35cm, but it appears the "duricrust" lurking beneath the outside has obtained the day. The cemented soil of duricrust is unlike anything else encountered sooner than on Mars in outdated missions, and never something the mole turned into designed for. In preference to burrow into Mars, the instru...