Posted on 09/25/2021 4:44:46 PM PDT by blueplum
NASA's InSight lander has measured one of the biggest and longest marsquakes yet, which featured tremors of 4.2 magnitude lasting nearly an hour and a half, the space agency said.
The robotic seismometre celebrated 1,000 days on the Red Planet on September 18, when it detected the largest tremor since it arrived at the Elysium Planitia in 2018.
The 4.2 magnitude quake equals the largest detected so far on Mars...
...NASA launched InSight with the goal of studying seismic waves to learn more about the interior of the Red Planet, and understand how it formed and its inner core.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
NASA had better rethink putting human habitats in subterranean lava tubes. I know they’ve been kicking that around with the Moon, as well.
Interesting.
It’s been known or at least theorized in recent years that Mars isn’t really geologically dead like the moon. It just seems to be in slow motion compared to Earth. Valles Marineris is now thought to be the result of plate tectonics. It’s still not active enough to produce volcanos however. Mons Olympus and the Tharsis plateau is most likely the result of the asteroid impact that created Hellas Planitia on the opposite side of the planet billions of years ago. Much like how the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago may have created huge volcanos at the same time in the area which is now India.
Coast to Coast will be rockin' n' rolli' toNIGHT !
Mars is crying out because of the damage we’re doing to the Earth.
Global warming!!!!!
It’s the Martians deep down inside of Mars. They just linked to YouTube and witnessed a SloJo video montage. They are laughing so hard their planet is shaking.
Mars is rock’m cause of the sun.
Lots more volcano active here on Earth as well.
The Martians are probably standing behind the lander shaking it and having a good laugh. “OK, Marvin— let’s give this contraption another good shake. That’ll drive the Earthlings crazy!”
The aliens just collapsed their underground bases and moved to the asteroid belt.
Do the tremors last longer due to the lack of a molten core?
Much like how the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago may have created huge volcanos at the same time in the area which is now India.
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The Deccan traps, nearly antipodal Chicxulub crater, created 66 mya ; eruptions lasted est. 30,000 years ; lava flows of basalt covered 600,000 square miles ; 6,500 feet deep; volume 122,750 cubic miles ; due to the volume of gases it was likely was another cause of the Dino die-off.
Another impactor also hit at near the same time off India’s coast : the 310 mile wide Shiva crater.
Note : basalt eruptions are like the the eruptions on the Hawaiian Island Chain, not the explosive sort like St Helens.
Martians dancing is what caused it.
https://youtu.be/akcuRgLdgjc?t=23
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