seismology
Basketball-Sized Meteorites Strike the Surface of Mars Every Day
NASA's InSight Mars Lander faced some challenges during its time on the red planet's surface. Its mole instrument struggled to…
Marsquakes Can Help Us Find Water on the Red Planet
Earth is a seismically active planet, and scientists have figured out how to use seismic waves from Earthquakes to probe…
Marsquakes are Caused by Shifting Magma
Before the InSight Lander arrived on Mars, scientists could only estimate what the planet's internal structure might be. Its size,…
InSight Peers Deep Below the Surface on Mars
The InSight lander has been on Mars, gathering data for a thousand days now, working to give us a better…
InSight has Mapped out the Interior of Mars, Revealing the Sizes of its Crust, Mantle, and Core
In a series of newly-published papers, NASA scientists have shown how InSight's seismic data allowed them to measure the structure…
One Full Year of Seismic Data Collected by Mars Insight Includes 500 Quakes
The English vocabulary has some words that only make sense from an Earth-bound perspective. Earthquake is one of those. Even…
After a Challenging First Year on Mars, InSight Shows Us that Mars is Seismically Active
The NASA and DLR InSight lander has been on Mars for over a year now. The mission has faced significant…
It’s Snowing Iron Near the Earth’s Core
New research by a team of geophysicists has revealed that "snow" could be a regular feature in Earth's core region.
Astronomy Cast Ep. 505: Seismology
We’re always interested in the surface features of the planets and moons in the Solar System, but that’s only skin…
Continental Crust
The crust is the top layer of the Earth's Surface. Did you know that there are 2 types, though? One…