The self-hammering probe on NASA’s Mars lander can’t seem to actually dig into the ground

InSight’s heat probe sticking out of the ground on Mars | Image: NASA NASA’s latest Mars lander is having problems with one of its main instruments — a self-hammering probe that just can’t seem to hammer itself into the interplanetary dirt. Over the weekend, the probe was attempting to dig itself into the Martian soil when it popped out of the ground unexpectedly. Now, NASA engineers are trying to troubleshoot to see if they can get this instrument to burrow underneath M