The seismometer SEIS on board NASA’s InSight lander may have recorded the first “marsquake”. The event occurred about two and a half weeks ago on 6 April and was significantly weaker than typical earthquakes. Insight landed on our neighboring planet on 26 November last year. The main objective of the SEIS team, which includes researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany, is to deduce the planet’s inner structure from the propagation of seismic waves. No previous Mars mission has succeeded in collecting meaningful seismic data.
Mars, on the other hand, consists of a single tectonic