The Mars InSight spacecraft detected the largest ‘earthquake’ ever recorded on another planet in early May. It’s a 5 on the Richter scale. In total, the probe has detected more than 1,300 earthquakes on the Martian surface. This is valuable knowledge of the processes occurring on the Red Planet.
For years, Mars seemed like a quiet and extinct planet. The situation changed after 2018, when the InSight probe landed a seismograph on the surface of Mars.
For this limit More than 1,300 earthquakes were recorded, the largest of which occurred on May 4, 2022. That’s 5 on the Richter scale. The largest previously recorded earthquake on Mars was estimated at 4.2 on the Richter scale last August.
Earthquakes on Mars open up new possibilities for us about what happens beneath the Martian surface. We learn that the planet is not cold. The lack of a magnetic field, which suggests that there is no molten core, is not the end of the topic. Modern theory says that there is a very shallow magma field in the Martian crust that causes earthquakes on Mars – Commentary oleh astronomer Dr. Błaszkiewicz dari Universitas Warmia dan Masuria di Olsztyn.