NASA InSight recorded the largest earthquake on Mars - it lasted 10 hours, and the intensity reached 4.7 points
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has revealed the most powerful earthquake ever observed on Mars, i.e. the Mars Shake.
Here's What We Know
The tremors were recorded in May 2022 using a seismometer on board the InSight research probe, which landed on the Red Planet more than four years ago. Now the probe is living out its last days. It has a few more weeks to go.
The Mars shake was recorded on May 4. Duration was 10 hours and magnitude - 4.7 points. Previously InSight has already recorded Mars shocks, but their duration did not exceed 60 minutes.
What is interesting, the NASA probe was at a distance of more than 2000 km from the epicenter, it was still able to collect information. John Clinton, a seismologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, said the energy released was equivalent to the total energy of all the Mars shocks the scientists observed.
InSight went to Mars in May 2018 and landed six months later. The probe proved that the Red Planet is much calmer than Earth in terms of seismic activity. Fixing Mars shaking opens up more opportunities to study Mars' crust, mantle and core.