What’s going on beneath the surface of Mars? More than you might think NASA/JPL-Caltech
The most powerful quake ever recorded on Mars was produced by tectonic forces from within its crust, not a meteor impact, which suggests that the Red Planet might be much more seismically active than previously thought.
In 2022, NASA’s InSight lander detected a magnitude-4.7 marsquake, called S1222a, which was five times larger than the previous most powerful one on record. Å®ÉúСÊÓƵs had found fresh meteor craters associated with the next two biggest marsquakes, so they thought it likely that S1222a was produced from an…
