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Mars Becomes The First Inner Planet After Earth To Have Its Core Measured – Forbes
NASA’s InSight Mars Lander measures for the first time the core of another rocky body apart Earth and Moon.
NASA’s InSight seismometers recorded the tectonic activity of the Martian underground.
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In April 2019, the seismometers installed on NASA’s InSight lander picked up a series of rumblings coming from the Martian underground. It was the first time a “marsquake”, the Martian equivalent of an earthquake, had been detected on a planet other than our own.
So far, InSight has detected around 500 marsquakes, meaning the planet is less seismically active than Earth but more so than the Moon. Most…
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