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Good morning RP. Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is titled "SEIS: Listening for Marsquakes." NASA's Insight Lander deployed the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure, or SEIS, late last year. SEIS is a sensitive seismometer designed to detect marsquakes. Pictured last week, SEIS sits quietly on the Martian surface, taking in some Sun while light clouds are visible over the horizon. On April 6, 2019, the first suspected marsquake was detected. You can listen (1:09) to what SEIS recorded at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLBP-5KoSCc.
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Good Tuesday morning Maj William W. 'Bill' Price! Since this is not a Rover like many others, it sits quietly doing it's job of monitoring seismic activity! Scientists, in the past, that there are no techtonic plates like Earth's structure has, so it will be interesting to see the results of r time! Great post, Bill!
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Lt Col Charlie Brown If it is a marsquake, it suggests that Mars may still be cooling (causing movement along known fault lines).
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