{"id":141726,"date":"2022-07-06T03:22:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T08:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/what-can-earthquakes-and-marsquakes-teach-us-about-planets"},"modified":"2022-07-06T03:22:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T08:22:23","slug":"what-can-earthquakes-and-marsquakes-teach-us-about-planets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/what-can-earthquakes-and-marsquakes-teach-us-about-planets","title":{"rendered":"What can earthquakes and marsquakes teach us about planets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-can-earthquakes-and-marsquakes-teach-us-about-planets2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Understanding what\u2019s inside of a planet is like trying to figure out what\u2019s inside of a gift without unwrapping it. But because we can\u2019t simply tear open a planet, instead, we must rely on secondary evidence, like the waves generated by geologic events.<\/p>\n<p>Seismology \u2014 the study of quakes and seismic waves \u2014 lets us take \u201cimages\u201d of the interiors of planets. NASA\u2019s Viking landers brought the first seismometers to Mars in 1976, but they were plagued by noise, which rendered them largely ineffective. It took more than 40 years until Mars hosted another mission equipped with a quake-measuring instrument: <a href=\"https:\/\/astronomy.com\/news\/2020\/02\/insight-detects-174-marsquakes-proving-mars-is-seismically-active\" target=\"_blank\">NASA\u2019s InSight lander<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And although <a href=\"https:\/\/astronomy.com\/news\/2022\/05\/insight-dusty-selfie\" target=\"_blank\">InSight is expected to retire later this year<\/a>, ever since <a href=\"https:\/\/astronomy.com\/news\/2018\/11\/insight-has-landed-inside-the-dramatic-touchdown\" target=\"_blank\">the lander touched down<\/a> in 2018, this stationary surveyor has been studying marsquakes, slowly unveiling the interior of the Red Planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding what\u2019s inside of a planet is like trying to figure out what\u2019s inside of a gift without unwrapping it. But because we can\u2019t simply tear open a planet, instead, we must rely on secondary evidence, like the waves generated by geologic events. Seismology \u2014 the study of quakes and seismic waves \u2014 lets us [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}