The quake was recorded when InSight was sent to Mars with a highly sensitive seismometer, provided by France’s Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES), to study the deep interior of the planet.
Spewing water vapour, carbon dioxide, and sulphur dioxide into the air, these explosions tore through the Martian surface about 4 billion years ago, according to scientists' estimates, reported in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
The mission milestone to collect the first sample of Martian Rock will take off in the next two weeks.
The atmosphere on Mars is mostly carbon dioxide and extremely thin (about 100 times less dense than Earth's), with no breathable oxygen, NASA said on Friday.
The study by scientists at the University of Chicago catalogued these rivers and found that significant river runoff persisted on Mars later into its history than previously thought.
According to a new research, present-day Mars is a cold and dry planet with less than one per cent of Earths atmospheric pressure at the surface.
Here's why the idea of a human colony on the Red Planet could remain nothing but a distant dream.
In yet another surprising revelation related to Mars, a study has claimed that the environment of the Red Planet over 3.5 billion years ago was able to support liquid water at the surface.
Washington: After 10-month journey of 442 million mile, NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission entered into Mars orbit, the US space agency has said.After a 33-minute engine firing, mission controllers received acknowledgment at
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