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What Marsquakes Reveal About The Planet's Habitability - Short Wave

What Marsquakes Reveal About The Planet's Habitability - Short Wave

Update: 2025-09-05
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Mars is known for its barren desert landscape and dry climate. But two recent studies in the journals Nature and Science go beneath the surface, exploring the interior of the red planet using seismic data from NASA’s InSight mission. And now, this data is also giving scientists a glimpse into the planet’s history – to see how Mars evolved over billions of years and how its inner structure compares to that of Earth. 

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What Marsquakes Reveal About The Planet's Habitability - Short Wave

What Marsquakes Reveal About The Planet's Habitability - Short Wave