An illustration of NASA鈥檚 Perseverance rover landing on Mars NASA/JPL-Caltech
For the first time in history, the landing of a spacecraft on Mars might be 鈥渉eard鈥 in an unusual way 鈥 by the seismic waves it produces as it punches the surface of the planet.
The ears in this scenario are built into NASA鈥檚 InSight lander, which touched down in a region called Elysium Planitia on Mars in 2018. Since then, the stationary lander has been using instruments to study the planet鈥檚 geology, including a seismometer to detect seismic waves, and has found hundreds of seismic events known…
