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InSight’s Robotic Arm Helps Remove Solar Panel Dust Trickles Sand in the Wind
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To clean a bit of dust from one of its solar panels, NASA's InSight lander trickled sand above the panel.…

Jun 3, 2021
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InSight Starts Burying Seismometer’s Cable
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NASA's InSight lander used a scoop on its robotic arm to begin trickling soil over the cable connecting its seismometer…

Apr 1, 2021
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InSight’s Mole Comes to Rest
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The mole, a heat probe that traveled to Mars aboard NASA's InSight lander, as it looked after hammering on Jan.…

Jan 14, 2021
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Replica of InSight’s Arm Practices Scraping
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This footage from Aug. 19, 2019, shows a replica of InSight scraping soil with a scoop on the end of…

Oct 16, 2020
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InSight’s Arm Pulls Back, Revealing the Mole
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NASA's InSight retracted its robotic arm on Oct. 3, 2020, revealing where the spike-like mole is trying to burrow into…

Oct 16, 2020
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NASA InSight’s Mole Taps the Bottom of the Lander’s Scoop
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The movement of sand grains in the scoop on the end of NASA InSight's robotic arm suggests that the spacecraft's…

Jul 7, 2020
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InSight Prepares to Push on the Mole
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InSight recently moved its robotic arm closer to its digging device, called the mole, in preparation to push on its…

Feb 21, 2020
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Robotic Arm Pushes on a Model of the Mole
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This test using an engineering model of the InSight lander here on Earth shows how the spacecraft on Mars will…

Feb 21, 2020
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InSight’s Arm Camera Stares Into the Pit
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The shadow of NASA InSight's robotic arm moves over its heat probe on Nov. 3, 2019, the 333rd Martian day,…

Nov 6, 2019
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