In 1976, NASA launched two missions to Mars to study the planet's surface and search for life. The probes also looked for signs of quakes on the Red Planet, but failed to find anything definitive - or so we thought.
NASA’s Viking 2 lander probably discovered quakes on Mars almost 50 years ago, but this has only just been confirmed thanks to data from the more recent
InSight probe.Both probes were also equipped with a seismometer to hunt for marsquakes, tremors on the Martian surface similar to earthquakes, to see if they existed.
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