The mega-marsquake, which is 5 times stronger than the previous record, may be the last big find from the InSight Mars Lander.
back in August 2021, which was recorded at a magnitude around 4.2. Another indication of the scale of the event is that InSight continued detecting waves from the record-breaking quake for around 10 hours, while the after-effects of all previous Marsquakes had subsided within an hour.
"The energy released by this single marsquake is equivalent to the cumulative energy from all other Marsquakes we've seen so far," John Clinton, a seismologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich and co-author of the study, said in a from the American Geophysical Union, which published the research."Although the event was over 2,000 kilometers distant, the waves recorded at InSight were so large they almost saturated our seismometer."InSight launched in May 2018 and landed on Mars in late November that year. Since then, it has been using its seismometer to detect activity on the Red Planet, which is seismically much more placid than Earth.
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