Artist’s depiction of the InSight lander on Mars NASA/JPL-Caltech
Quakes aren鈥檛 unique to Earth 鈥 a lander has detected more than 700 of them on Mars. And new research shows that some of them may occur seasonally.
The NASA InSight lander, which touched down on the Red Planet in November 2018, brought seismometers and placed them on the surface using a robotic arm. These instruments have been gathering information since shortly after the landing.
鈥淚t鈥檚 really cool that we鈥檙e finding so many marsquakes, and there鈥檚 so much about this planet that we鈥檙e still finding out,鈥 says …
