What’s going on beneath the floor of Mars? More than you would possibly suppose
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The strongest quake ever recorded on Mars was produced by tectonic forces from inside its crust, not a meteor affect, which means that the Red Planet is perhaps far more seismically lively than beforehand thought.
In 2022, NASA’s InSight lander detected a magnitude-4.7 marsquake, referred to as S1222a, which was 5 occasions bigger than the earlier strongest one on file. Scientists had discovered contemporary meteor craters related to the subsequent two greatest marsquakes, so that they thought …