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NASA’s InSight ‘Hears’ Its First Meteoroid Impacts on Mars

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-...mpacts-on-mars

The Mars lander’s seismometer has picked up vibrations from four separate impacts in the past two years.
NASA’s InSight lander has detected seismic waves from four space rocks that crashed on Mars in 2020 and 2021. Not only do these represent the first impacts detected by the spacecraft’s seismometer since InSight touched down on the Red Planet in 2018, it also marks the first time seismic and acoustic waves from an impact have been detected on Mars.

A new paper published Monday in Nature Geoscience details the impacts, which ranged between 53 and 180 miles (85 and 290 kilometers) from InSight’s location, a region of Mars called Elysium Planitia.

The first of the four confirmed meteoroids – the term used for space rocks before they hit the ground – made the most dramatic entrance: It entered Mars’ atmosphere on Sept. 5, 2021, exploding into at least three shards that each left a crater behind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA90WKuukmM&t=118s

Let me know if it hears anything about my barrel of Iraqi oil. I'm still waiting on that since 1992. :salute:

Was it able to detect the Klingons around Uranus?

:Kaleun_Smile:

:haha:

This thread is restricted to impotent out of this world sciency stuff only, so buzz off.

I found it very interesting-Thank you for sharing it Rockstar.

But that's me I'm fully fascinated by the Universe.

I had to look it up this marsquakes and found this wiki page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsquake

(and I'm fascinated by Quantum Mechanics)

Markus