There is just one difference: marsquakes are most frequently caused by meteoroid crashes since the Red Planet lacks the tectonic plates that shift pieces of crust on Earth.
Otherwise known as S1222a, this marsquake was assumed to have been caused by a meteoroid impact, so an international team of researchers immediately began searching for evidence of a fresh crater.
“We undertook a comprehensive search of the region in which the marsquake occurred,” Fernando and his team said in a study recently published in Geophysical Research Letters.
In the absence of a massive crater, blast zone, or dust clouds that could have possibly matched the magnitude of S1222a, the team finally came to the conclusion that subsurface forces must have been behind the quake.
Tectonic forces can be generated by anything that has a sizeable effect on the crust of a planet, not just the sliding plates that cause phenomena such as quakes and volcanoes on Earth.
Future spacecraft with even more seismic wave detection power than InSight may gradually tell us what is happening beneath that red, rocky, sun-blasted surface.
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There is just one difference: marsquakes are most frequently caused by meteoroid crashes since the Red Planet lacks the tectonic plates that shift pieces of crust on Earth.
Otherwise known as S1222a, this marsquake was assumed to have been caused by a meteoroid impact, so an international team of researchers immediately began searching for evidence of a fresh crater.
“We undertook a comprehensive search of the region in which the marsquake occurred,” Fernando and his team said in a study recently published in Geophysical Research Letters.
In the absence of a massive crater, blast zone, or dust clouds that could have possibly matched the magnitude of S1222a, the team finally came to the conclusion that subsurface forces must have been behind the quake.
Tectonic forces can be generated by anything that has a sizeable effect on the crust of a planet, not just the sliding plates that cause phenomena such as quakes and volcanoes on Earth.
Future spacecraft with even more seismic wave detection power than InSight may gradually tell us what is happening beneath that red, rocky, sun-blasted surface.
The original article contains 795 words, the summary contains 180 words. Saved 77%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!