Category: marsquake

NASA says its InSight lander has detected over 450 ‘marsquakes’

Post author By Randall
Post date February 25, 2020
Categories In gear, insight, insight lander, marsquake, Nasa, Space, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] NASA has also revealed that the largest quake SEIS found was around magnitude 4.0 in size, which is milder than scientists expected. That’s not quite strong enough to get readings from the planet’s lower mantle and core, though, which scientists are hoping to get. InSight principal investigator Bruce Banerdt described those layers as the […]

NASA shares the odd sounds from its Mars seismometer

Post author By Randall
Post date October 3, 2019
Categories In gear, insight, mars, marsquake, quake, Science, seis, seismometer, Space, Tech

[ad_1] There’s also an indication of how Mars affects the seismometer itself. A third recording includes the “dinks and donks” from SEIS’ parts as they expand and contract in Mars’ more dramatic temperature changes. If the earlier clips were for bass heads, this is more for experimental sorts. It’s musique concrète from 140 million miles […]