NASA’s InSight spacecraft has measured the depth of Mars’ crust and the size of its core, using data from Mars earthquakes since 2018.
NASA‘s Marssent to InSight The spacecraft successfully landed on the red planet towards the end of 2018.
MarsThe spacecraft, which successfully lowered its seismometer to the surface to detect seismic activities in , and then started drilling for drilling, stopped its missions last April due to dust covering the solar panels.
MARS EARTHQUAKE WAS REGISTERED
The “Seismic Experiment for Internal Structure” (SEIS) instrument in the vehicle detected seismic events on the surface of Mars thousands of kilometers away and recorded 733 different Martian earthquakes.
DEPTH AND CORE SIZE CALCULATED
Analyzing the earthquake data in question, scientists calculated that the crust of Mars is between 20 and 37 kilometers thick. Beneath the crust is the mantle, which extends for about 1,560 kilometers to the core of Mars, which turns out to have a radius of 1,820 kilometers.
However, experts have calculated that the crust of Mars is also about 35 kilometers thick.
Another important finding of the study is that the Martian core has been observed to melt. Many scientists previously predicted that the Red Planet’s core was still intact.
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