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Chris Davies - Apr 1, 2021, 12:00pm CDT Mars may not have tectonic plates like Earth does, but that doesn’t mean the red planet isn’t capable of some serious quakes, with NASA’s InSight lander recording a further two in what’s believed to be a hotspot for seismic activity. The so-called “Marsquakes” are the latest to be spotted in Cerberus Fossae, somewhere no stranger to ground-shaking events. NASA first discussed the quakes back in early 2020, having recorded the magnitude 3.6 and 3.5 activity with InSight’s seismometer. That instrument, known as the Seismi...

New video and audio of the Perseverance landing goes viral – but that viral video of Mars is not what you think it is.

Pictures from space! Our image of the day Space 16/02/2021 Space.com Staff © Provided by Space Valentine Island in northern Western Australia is a swirling mix of blues and reddish browns, as seen from space by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. The mission, which is made up of two satellites, imaged the tiny island for Valentine's Day. Valentine Island is just about 1 mile (1.60 kilometers) long and 0.15 miles (250 meters) wide and can be found in the King Sound, a large gulf that has one of the highest tides in all of Australia. Space can be a wondrous place, and we've ...

Pictures from space! Our image of the day Space 2/5/2021 Space.com Staff © Provided by Space The European Space Agency's Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission snapped this chilly photo of New York City on Feb. 4, 2021 showing the city blanketed in snow. This recent snow storm was classified as "major" and affected a majority of the Northeast United States, with New York declaring a state of emergency for both the immense snowfall and blistering winds. Copernicus Sentinel-2 is an Earth-observing mission made up of two satellites: Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-2B. The pair monitor and i...

In this photo, a scientist at the European Space Agency's Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory at the ESTEC technical center in the Netherlands works on essential mission work.