I’m Diggin It… Posted on 2019-02-262019-02-26 by dubiago Robot ‘Mole’ on Mars Begins Digging Into Red Planet This Week(Image: © NASA/JPL-Caltech/DLR) Update, 5:20 p.m. EST: The mole’s deployment has been delayed by two days because the commands didn’t reach InSight in time, according to a statement from the German space agency, a collaborator on the mission.