Massive Marsquake! Five Times Larger Than Previous Record Holder
…many hours. According to new research, the Marsquake was at least five times as large as the next largest quake recorded on the planet. The study was published on December…
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Marsquake! Seismic Waves From the Largest Marsquake Ever Detected Reveal Possible Meteoroid Impact
…in two papers in Geophysical Research Letters, could also indicate that alternating layers of volcanic and sedimentary rocks lie beneath the surface. The 4.7 magnitude earthquake, or marsquake, happened in…
Scientists Reveal What a Marsquake Looks Like
This artist’s concept is a simulation of what seismic waves from a marsquake might look like as they move through different layers of the Martian interior. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ETH Zurich/ Van…
Marsquake! NASA’s InSight Detects Two Sizable Quakes on Mars
…InSight’s Marsquake Service at ETH Zurich. “One Martian year on, we are now much faster at characterizing seismic activity on the Red Planet.” Better Detection The winds may have quieted…
Days Are Numbered: Power Levels Diminishing for NASA’s Marsquake Hunting InSight Lander
Illustration of NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) Credit: NASA Dusty solar panels and darker skies are expected to bring the Mars lander mission to…
The Far Side of Mars Rocked by Two of the Largest Marsquakes Ever Recorded
NASA’s InSight lander on Mars used its seismometer to record two of its strongest seismic events to date: a magnitude 4.2 and a magnitude 4.1 marsquake. NASA’s InSight lander’s seismometer…
Marsquakes – InSight Mars Lander Opens a New Era for Planetary Seismology
…team of researchers and engineers at ETH Zurich, led by ETH Professor Domenico Giardini, had delivered the SEIS control electronics and is responsible for the Marsquake Service. The latter is…
Seismicity on Mars Full of Surprises – More Than 500 Marsquakes Detected by InSight Lander in First Year
…The Marsquake Service, the part of the InSight ground team that detects marsquakes and curates the planet’s seismicity catalog. Marsquakes differ from earthquakes in a number of ways, Ceylan explained….
A Crust Like Heavy Armor – New Research Sheds Light on Mars’ Structure
…to those of Earth or the Moon and the planet’s main source of heat is radioactive. The Marsquake Service at ETH Zurich detected the strongest marsquake ever noted on a…
Volcanic Activity Beneath the Surface of Mars: Magma Makes Marsquakes Rock Red Planet
…— which is equivalent to about 359 days on Earth. According to Professor Tkalcic, the marsquake findings could help scientists figure out why the Red Planet no longer has a…
NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Detects Three Big Marsquakes
…quakes from a range of distances and with different kinds of seismic waves provides more information about a planet’s inner structure. This summer, the mission’s scientists used previous marsquake data…
Seismic Shock: Unraveling the Mystery of Mightiest-Ever Mars Quake
Researchers from the University of Oxford, in collaboration with international space agencies, determined that the largest-ever recorded Marsquake, S1222a, was caused by tectonic forces, not a meteorite impact, suggesting that…
The Heart of Mars: Seismic Waves Reveal the Red Planet’s Inner Secrets
…through the core of Mars. Two seismic signals, one from a very distant marsquake and one from a meteorite impact on the far side of the planet, have allowed us…
NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Detects Stunning Meteoroid Impact on Red Planet
…shake during the impact while cameras aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the cavernous new crater from space. Last December 24, NASA’s InSight lander recorded a magnitude 4 marsquake. However,…
Planet-Scale MRI: High-Resolution Illumination of Earth’s Interior Down to the Planet’s Core
…of Mines. https://youtu.be/ilna9RAX6r8 Marsquake – Cerberus Fossae event (Mw 3.1). The visualization shows the velocity of the seismic waves (vertical component). Researchers used Frontera to simulate the event, in collaboration…
NASA’s Mars InSight: 3 Major Martian Mysteries Resolved
…that seismologists with the Marsquake Service, coordinated by ETH Zurich, detected their first marsquake. Since then, Mars has more than made up for lost time by shaking frequently, albeit gently, with…
A Seismic Shift: NASA’s InSight Mission Unlocks Secrets of Mars’ Core
…Planet for well over a full Martian year (about two Earth years), meaning the Marsquake Service – the scientists who initially scrutinize seismographs – had already honed their skills. It…
Large Meteorite Impacts on Mars: Seismic Waves Observed on Surface of a Planet Other Than Earth for the First Time
…of the Martian crust. Researchers working at ETH Zurich in the Marsquake Service have been analyzing the measurements made by the NASA InSight mission’s seismometer on one of our neighboring…