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Highlights The intensity of these tremors is measured at 3.3 and 3.1 on the Richter scale Marsquake neither travels directly from the source through the planet nor does it scatter New Delhi: Earthquakes are a common phenomenon on the Earth's surface. Do you know that Mars too observes disturbance on its crust layer on the outer surface? In a recent development, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Insight Lander has detected two large seismic tremors on the surface of Mars. The intensity of these tremors is measured at 3.3 and 3.1 on the Richter scale. Scientists hav...

According to a new study, the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, may have originated from a much larger moon that orbited the Red Planet billions of years ago. There have been several theories over the years as to where the moons originated from. One popular hypothesis was that they were originally asteroids (because of the large amount of craters on their surfaces) that got caught by Mars’ gravitational pull. However, many questions arose over that theory because if they really were asteroids, they wouldn’t have an almost-circular orbit around the equator of the planet. Another well-k...

All six wheels of NASA’s Perseverance are firmly and safely on the Martian surface, following a successful landing of the rover in Jezero crater

(Photo : Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images) LOMPOC, CA - MAY 05: The NASA InSight spacecraft launches onboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas-V rocket, Saturday, May 5, 2018, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to study the "inner space" of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core. According to New Scientist's latest report, the InSight lander began operating on the Gaseous Giant two years ago. However, since it wasn't able to go further underground, NASA's ...

Getting Data about the Solar System: Telescopes and Spacecrafts FROM THE LECTURE SERIES: A FIELD GUIDE TO THE PLANETS There are two ways in which we can get data about things far away from the Earth—using telescopes and with spacecrafts. Let’s take a look at the potential developments in these two areas. Telescopes of all kinds are used to collect data about faraway regions of our solar system and beyond. (Image: NASA/Public domain) Telescopic View: Space and Earth Our study of the solar system and the universe changed when Hubble was launched in 1990 and successfully repaired and upgrade...