Viking 2 on the floor of Mars
NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA’s Viking 2 lander probably discovered quakes on Mars nearly 50 years in the past, however this has solely simply been confirmed because of knowledge from the newer InSight probe.
In 1975, NASA launched two missions to Mars, Viking 1 and a pair of, to check the planet’s floor and seek for life. Both probes have been additionally geared up with a seismometer to hunt for marsquakes, tremors on the Martian floor just like earthquakes, to see in the event that they existed.
Viking 1’s seismometer did not function, however Viking …