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Katarina Miljkovic, ARC Future Fellow, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University

For the first time, robots on Mars found meteorite impact craters by sensing seismic shock waves

NASA / JPL-Caltech

Since 2018, NASA’s InSight mission to Mars has recorded seismic waves from more than 1,300 marsquakes in its quest to probe the internal structure of the red planet. The solar panels of the car-sized robotic lander have become caked with Martian dust, and NASA scientists expect it will completely power down by the end of 2022.


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