Mars' Days Are Getting Shorter as NASA Detects the Planet Speeding Up
Mars is spinning faster and faster, with the length of its days decreasing incrementally every year.
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Mars is spinning faster and faster, with the length of its days decreasing incrementally every year.
Data from the now-retired lander also reveals that the Red Planet wobbles due to its molten core.
Recordings of the interior of Mars have just delivered the most precise measurement of the red planet's spin yet, and the results are a confusing surprise.
Data sent by the spacecraft before it retired last December has provided new details about how fast the planet rotates and how much it wobbles. Scientists have made the most precise measurements ever of Mars’ rotation, for the first time detecting how the planet wobbles due to the “sloshing” of i
Mars is spinning faster and gradually shortening each day slightly, scientists have found — and it has left them puzzled as to why.