NASA's InSight Mars Lander, which is expected to soon power down after four years on the red planet, has reportedly recorded its biggest quake on Mars ever.
According to new research published in the American Geophysical Union journal Geophysical Research Letters, the international team said on the Earth night of May 4, the lander's seismometer detected a quake that was at least five times as big as the next largest one recorded on the red planet.
Co-author and seismologist John Clinton, of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, said the energy released by the single marsquake is equivalent with the cumulative energy from all other marsquakes seen thus far. Seismology on Mars can help researchers better understand what's underneath its surface and its evolution. This image shows InSight’s domed Wind and Thermal Shield, which covers its seismometer, called Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure, or SEIS.
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