Planetary scientists have waited years for NASA's InSight to record a 'big' Marsquake, but it might have come as the lander runs out of time (and sun). NASA Mars Marsquake
on Mars. The plucky mission that landed on the red planet in late November 2018 and since then , it has been diligently recording seismic activity. The primary goals of InSight were to better understand how geologically active Mars might be and map out the planet's interior. By that measure, InSight was a massive success. Yet, it is the Martian dust that swirls in the air and settles on InSight's solar panels that isThe realm of extraterrestrial seismology is a small place.
During its over 1200 sols on the surface, it has felt thousands of fairly small earthquakes that happened all over the planet. The instrument is highly sensitive because we weren't sure just how much or how little Mars might quake. Turns out, it isn't much.The shaking felt by InSight's seismometer during a magnitude 5 Marsquake on May 4, 2022. Credit: NASA.. Before this, the largest recorded by InSight during the almost 4 years it has been on Mars was magnitude 4.2.
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