NASA’s Mars Insight Lander The largest earthquake ever recorded on Mars.
According to new research published in American Geophysical Research Letters (AGU), the international team on Earth Night announced May 4 that the probe’s seismometer detected an earthquake at least five times larger than the largest ever recorded. on the red planet.
“This was clearly the largest earthquake we’ve seen,” said Taichi Kawamura, lead author and planetary scientist at the International Institute of Physics.
Co-author and seismologist John Clinton of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich said that the energy released by each earthquake is equal to the combined energy of all the other earthquakes it has ever experienced.
Clinton, co-leader of the Marsh Service with Kawamura, said the waves recorded by Insight were so large that they nearly saturate a seismometer.
Image of Mars from NASA’s Mars InSight Lander.
(NASA/Twitter)
The earthquake waves lasted about 10 hours.
Previous swamp waves never exceeded an hour.
The previous largest earthquake, recorded in August 2021, had a magnitude of 4.2, while the May earthquake had a magnitude of 4.7.
The epicenter was outside The most seismically active region of Mars.
This seismic event was also rare because it showed the characteristics of both high and low frequency earthquakes.
The dome seismometer of NASA’s InSight rover has measured the largest Martian earthquake.
(NASA/JPL-Caltech.)
Data for this large earthquake was released in October by the Mars Seismic Experiment Internal Structural Information Service (SEIS), NASA’s Planetary Data System (PDS), and the Integrated Research Institute for Seismology (IRIS), as well as the Earthquake Service Catalog.
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Mars seismology can help researchers better understand what lies beneath the surface of Mars and how it formed.
It is believed that most earthquakes are caused by fault movements.
This image shows InSight’s domed wind and heat shield covering its seismometer, called the Seismic Experiment of Interior Structure, or SEIS.
(NASA/JPL-Caltech)
InSight is believed to be nearing the end of its life as dust gradually covered the solar cells and reduced their capacity.
“We were really touched by a great event at the end of the extended mission,” said Kawamura.
Based on Data was collected from the marshes“I would say this mission was an extraordinary success,” he continued.
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“My power is very low, so this may be the last photo I can send. Don’t worry about me: My time here has been productive and uneventful. If I keep talking to my mission team, I will — but we’ll be signed here soon,” Insight’s 25-person team sent to 30 people on Twitter on Monday. “Thank you for staying with me.”
Since landing in November 2018, the probe has provided insights into Mars’ liquid core and the composition of the other inner layers. I have observed hundreds of earthquakes.
Fox News’ Paul Best contributed to this report.
