Nasa mission to the red planet detects and measures a likely ‘marsquake’
Nasa’s robotic probe InSight has detected and measured what scientists believe to be a quake on Mars, marking the first time a likely seismological tremor has been recorded on another planet, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory inThe breakthrough came 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.
The faint rumble characterised by JPL scientists as a likely marsquake was recorded on April 6th, the lander’s 128th Martian day, or sol. Scientists are still examining the data to determine conclusively the precise cause of the signal, but the trembling appeared to have originated from inside the planet, as opposed to being caused by forces above the surface, such as wind, JPL said in a news release.
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