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Jeff Nagle

NASA's ailing Mars lander captures the biggest Marsquake yet


The winds of Mars’ dusty season piled Martian regolith onto InSight’s solar panels. The rumble of the wind against the small, egg-shaped shield that protects the mission’s delicate seismometer drowned out the low-magnitude tremors usually felt on Mars. In the midst of this, NASA scientists thought the InSight probe might have detected its last marsquake before the mission comes to an end.

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