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goobster · 1587 days ago · link · · parent · post: NASA's Mars Lander 'Mole' Is Digging Again as Marsquake Mystery Baffles Scientists
It did bounce around for like 10 years, or something, and was supposed to go to Venus, then the Moon, and finally Mars. My guess is that the tech hasn't been updated, because the nature of NASA projects is that if you change ANYTHING, you have to resubmit the project like an entirely new one. So old shit is constantly getting flown, simply because it has weathered the test of time... and zero advancement/innovation/improvement.