During Sol 308 (October 9, 2019), the MOLE probe resumed digging by penetrating a few millimeters into the Martian soil, as documented by this sequence of images taken by the Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC).
It seems therefore that the “scratch and push” of the robotic arm has been successful, although perhaps it is still a bit ‘early to sing victory.
Let’s keep our fingers crossed and hope that the problem has finally been solved….
The original images have undergone white balancing and a slight increase in microcontrast and color saturation in order to make the colors more similar to what the human eye would see.
N.B. All three photos have been processed following a single scheme and setting the various filters to identical values for all photos, so as to make them perfectly comparable with each other and thus be able to appreciate the real differences in color and brightness between the photos themselves.
Original images:
Sol 308 16:26:33 LMST https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/659273/ https://mars.nasa.gov/insight-raw-images/surface/sol/0308/idc/D000M0308_623884580EDR_F0000_0675M_.JPG
Sol 308 16:27:19 LMST https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/659274/ https://mars.nasa.gov/insight-raw-images/surface/sol/0308/idc/D000M0308_623884627EDR_F0000_0676M_.JPG
Sol 308 16:28:05 LMST https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/659275/ https://mars.nasa.gov/insight-raw-images/surface/sol/0308/idc/D000M0308_623884675EDR_F0000_0677M_.JPG
Sol 308 16:28:51 LMST https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/659276/ https://mars.nasa.gov/insight-raw-images/surface/sol/0308/idc/D000M0308_623884722EDR_F0000_0678M_.JPG
Sol 308 16:29:38 LMST https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/659277/ https://mars.nasa.gov/insight-raw-images/surface/sol/0308/idc/D000M0308_623884770EDR_F0000_0679M_.JPG
Sol 308 16:30:24 LMST https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/659278/ https://mars.nasa.gov/insight-raw-images/surface/sol/0308/idc/D000M0308_623884817EDR_F0000_0680M_.JPG
Sol 308 16:31:10 LMST https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/659279/ https://mars.nasa.gov/insight-raw-images/surface/sol/0308/idc/D000M0308_623884865EDR_F0000_0681M_.JPG
Sol 308 16:31:56 LMST https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/659280/ https://mars.nasa.gov/insight-raw-images/surface/sol/0308/idc/D000M0308_623884912EDR_F0000_0682M_.JPG
Sol 308 16:32:42 LMST https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/659281/ https://mars.nasa.gov/insight-raw-images/surface/sol/0308/idc/D000M0308_623884959EDR_F0000_0683M_.JPG
Sol 308 16:33:29 LMST https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/659282/ https://mars.nasa.gov/insight-raw-images/surface/sol/0308/idc/D000M0308_623885007EDR_F0000_0684M_.JPG
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