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Time lapse of the HP3 'mole'

July 15, 2014

Time lapse video of the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3) "mole" probing to depth in a test.

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This artist's concept depicts the stationary NASA Mars lander known by the acronym InSight at work studying the interior of Mars.
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The red dot marks the final landing location of NASA's InSight lander in this annotated image of the surface of Mars, taken by the THEMIS camera on NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter in 2015.
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