NASA Probe Detects Likely ‘Marsquake’
- NASA‘s robotic probe InSight has detected and measured what scientists believe to be a “marsquake”.This marks the first time a likely seismological tremor has been recorded on another planet.
Key Facts
- The breakthrough came nearly five months after InSight, the first spacecraft designed specifically to study the deep interior of a distant world, touched down on the surface of Mars to begin its two-year seismological mission on the red planet.
- This is the first recorded trembling that appears to have come from inside the planet, as opposed to being caused by forces above the surface, such as wind.
- The size and duration ....
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