UNDERSTANDING NASA on Mars recorded his first “marsquake,” which created waves among Earthling earthquake tens of millions of miles and ushered in a new era in our study of the red planet.
The faint signal, which arrived on April 6, is the first tremor scientists believe originated in the Martian interior, not in the supernatural, like air. Yet, researchers are still struggling to gather enough data to reduce the precise cause of an earthquake.
The available waves are very small and seem to correspond to 2 or 2.5 earthquakes, which would not be visible on the surface of the earth. But this small earthquake marks an important moment for InSight scientists, who have been waiting for this day since the seismometer was installed in December 2018 and the official start of its monitoring phase a few weeks ago.
Earthquakes are expected in many parts of the Earth, but they also appear to be possible on other planets.
Although they are clearly not called "earthquakes." On April 6, 2019, NASA's JET Propulsion Laboratory recorded an earthquake believed to be "a marsquake,," making it the first recorded marsquake, outside the Earth or Moon.
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