InSight probe records two new earthquakes on Mars

NASA announced that the InSight probe recorded two new earthquakes of magnitude 3.3 and 3.1, respectively, on Mars in the Cerberus Fossil region earlier in March.

“The probe recorded the two new earthquakes on March 7 and 18, indicating that the Cerberus Fossil is an area of ​​seismic activity on the Red Planet,” said a statement from NASA.

It is reported that the probe had previously recorded more than 500 earthquakes of various strengths in this region, the strongest being 3.5 and 3.6 degrees.

And one of the supervisors of the InSight mission notes that the Taichi Kawamura seismograph device installed on the probe belongs to the Institute of Geophysics of Paris, and during his stay on Mars recorded two types of earthquakes: the first type looks like to those that occur on Earth, and the second type resembles those He spoke of on the Moon, and that “the four largest earthquakes recorded by the device on the red planet are similar to those that occur on earth”.

It should be noted that the two new earthquakes were discovered after two Earth years after a series of similar powerful earthquakes (the year of Mars equals two years on Earth) and experts believe that this indicates that in this time of year, the summer season is found in the northern half of March, where the winds diminish and become. It is easy for the device to “pick up” the tremors occurring inside the planet.

It is reported that the InSight probe landed in November 2018 on the surface of Mars in the region of Elysium Planitia, and its mission is to study the geological composition of Mars, and for this, a seismograph and other devices have been installed on it.

Source: RIA Novosti

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