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Marsquake! NASA's InSight Lander Feels Its 1st Red Planet Tremor
Space.Com ^ | 23 April 2019 | Meghan Bartels

Posted on 04/23/2019 9:16:37 PM PDT by amorphous

Scientists just felt the Red Planet move under their feet — robotically from millions of miles away, on the stark surface of Mars.

On April 6, NASA's InSight lander sensed its first confirmed marsquake, a phenomenon scientists suspected, but couldn't confirm, occurred on the neighboring planet. Measuring the Martian equivalent of earthquakes, seismic waves traveling through the interior of the planet, was among the lander's key science goals.

"We've been waiting months for our first marsquake," Philippe Lognonné, the principal investigator for the seismometer instrument, said in a statement released by the French space agency, which runs the instrument with the national research center. "It's so exciting to finally have proof that Mars is still seismically active."

(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: chat; elonmusk; falcon9; falconheavy; insight; mars; marsquake; nasa; philippelognonne; redplanet; spacex
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Videos at link

https://www.space.com/insight-mars-lander-first-marsquake.html

1 posted on 04/23/2019 9:16:37 PM PDT by amorphous
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Could be an earthquake.

Could be Martian sandworms...


2 posted on 04/23/2019 9:32:15 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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3 posted on 04/23/2019 9:36:50 PM PDT by gaijin
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4 posted on 04/23/2019 9:37:25 PM PDT by caww
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5 posted on 04/23/2019 9:39:42 PM PDT by caww
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Hear NASA recording of first-ever likely ‘marsquake’.....

https://globalnews.ca/news/5195114/nasa-recording-marsquake/


6 posted on 04/23/2019 9:45:24 PM PDT by caww
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To: amorphous

Trump’s fault.
Global warming.

;-)


7 posted on 04/23/2019 9:46:44 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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To: caww

Nice work. TY!


8 posted on 04/23/2019 10:01:15 PM PDT by amorphous
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Couldn't resist. Slow plate movement might also be responsible for the Marineris canyon, so one theory goes. This will give weight to that.
9 posted on 04/23/2019 10:01:15 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: VanShuyten
Could be an earthquake marsquake.

Could be Martian sandworms...;)

10 posted on 04/23/2019 10:03:03 PM PDT by amorphous
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We're having a bit of quake activity taking place here on the third rock as well.

April 23 (UPI) -- A 6.5 magnitude earthquake rocked San Julian on the Philippines island of Eastern Samar Tuesday, a day after an earthquake hit the Asian nation's largest Luzon island, killing at least 11 people.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2019/04/23/Philippines-rocked-by-second-earthquake-in-two-days/9441556007245/

11 posted on 04/23/2019 10:07:39 PM PDT by amorphous
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12 posted on 04/23/2019 10:18:11 PM PDT by amorphous
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To: amorphous

effin frakkers


13 posted on 04/23/2019 10:21:16 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SvDQOiBEePw/hqdefault.jpg

Seismic activity on Mars. Whodathunk?


14 posted on 04/23/2019 10:21:30 PM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: amorphous

sandhippo?


15 posted on 04/23/2019 10:22:44 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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Who is more trustworthy, NASA or the Clinton’s?
Schrodinger’s cat?


16 posted on 04/23/2019 10:28:29 PM PDT by Mike K
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To: piasa
White Ape

https://johncarter.fandom.com/wiki/White_Ape

17 posted on 04/23/2019 10:29:41 PM PDT by amorphous
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Mars does have the largest volcano in the solar system. Must still be some magma below the surface and lingering tectonic activity?


18 posted on 04/23/2019 10:47:38 PM PDT by amorphous
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To: fieldmarshaldj; ETL; Moonman62; Red Badger; BenLurkin
It's the Wabash Cannonball.

19 posted on 04/23/2019 11:06:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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And thought to be long dormant as well. That whole set of volcanos on the Tharsis plateau is believed to be the result of the asteroid that created the Hellas basin on the other side of the planet. 2nd largest impact crater in the solar system I think.


20 posted on 04/23/2019 11:54:00 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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