Mars Lander Confirms Quakes, Even Aftershocks on Red Planet

NASA’s newest Mars lander has confirmed that quakes and even aftershocks are regularly jolting the red planet.

A life-size model of the spaceship Insight, NASA's first robotic lander dedicated to studying the deep interior of Mars, is shown at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., on Nov. 26, 2018. Mike Blake/Reuters

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—NASA’s newest Mars lander has confirmed that quakes and even aftershocks are regularly jolting the red planet.

Scientists reported on Feb. 24 that the seismometer from the InSight spacecraft has detected scores of marsquakes.