Earth has earthquakes. Mars has marsquakes. There is just one difference: Marsquakes are most frequently caused by meteoroid crashes, since the red planet lacks the tectonic plates that shift pieces ...

WHAT’S NEW — While the Apollo missions left a set of seismometers on the Moon that operated until 1977, InSight is the first Martian mission to carry seismic equipment. Before the probe arrived in ...

New research published in Geophysical Research Letters suggests that InSight captured the biggest marsquake ever recorded earlier this year. The paper, which studies the discovery in-depth, was ...

NASA’s beleaguered InSight lander on Mars has detected a magnitude 5 “marsquake” — the largest one the spacecraft has felt yet since landing on the planet in November of 2018. It’s a major moment that ...

NASA's InSight Mars Lander has recorded its biggest quake on Mars ever. According to new research published in the American Geophysical Union (AGU) journal Geophysical Research Letters, the ...

Last year, we recorded the largest marsquake that we had ever detected. The quake, which shook the planet violently, was not caused by a crashing asteroid or anything of that nature, though. Instead, ...

NASA’s mission to measure “Marsquakes” is almost over as a dust storm on the red planet threatens to prevent its solar panels from recharging its batteries. It could become space litter within days or ...

Any Martians out there should learn to duck and cover. On May 4, the Red Planet was rocked by a roughly magnitude 5 temblor, the largest Marsquake detected to date, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in ...

NASA's InSight lander may have ended its run on Mars, but the data it collected is still reverberating around the scientific community, not unlike the seismic waves it tracked within the red planet.

NASA's InSight Mars Lander detected the Mars temblor, or marsquake, on May 4th, 2022, or Sol (Martian day) 1,222 of the lander's mission. The marsquake clocked in at a magnitude 5 on moment magnitude ...

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The largest earthquake ever detected on Mars has revealed layers in its crust that could indicate past collision with a massive object, such as a meteoroid. Previous data has suggested the past ...