With death closing in, NASA's Mars InSight Lander picked up a record-breaking Marsquake in May.
NASA's InSight Mars Lander has detected a marsquake at least five times as large as the next largest ever recorded on the Red Planet. It had a magnitude of 4.7, lasted more than four hours and was unlike any of the thousands of Marsquakes previously detected. The previous biggest Marsquake, detected in August 2021, had a magnitude of 4.2.
"The energy released by this single marsquake is equivalent to the cumulative energy from all other Marsquakes we've seen so far, and although the event was over 1,200 miles [1,931 kilometers] distant, the waves recorded at InSight were so large they almost saturated our seismometer," John Clinton, study co-author and seismologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, said in a statement.
"The seismometer aboard the InSight lander has recorded thousands of marsquakes but never one this large, and it took over three years after landing to record it," study author Caroline Beghein, a professor in UCLA's department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, said in a statement."This quake generated different kinds of waves, including two types of waves trapped near the surface.
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