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A Seismic Event Just Revealed the Inside of Mars – Interesting Engineering
NASA’s InSight detected a seismic event! And it revealed the size of the Red Planet’s core.
NASA scientists just peeked into the ultimate depths of Mars for the first time, according to a presentation at the virtual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference this week reported in the journal Nature. The agency’s InSight spacecraft — which was placed on the Red Planet’s surface to peer into the inner-workings of the planet, detected a seismic energy wave ringing through the Martian interior.
And this seismic wave revealed the physical size of Mars’ core.
NASA’s InSight data from Mars’ core…
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