Turns out that there are quakes in other planets too, NASA’s Mars InSight lander has measured and recorded for the first time ever a likely quake, but they don’t call it an earthquake, they call it an Marsquake.
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and is the second smallest planet in the solar system. Named after the Roman god of war, Mars is also often described as the “Red Planet” due to its reddish appearance. Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin atmosphere composed primarily of carbon dioxide.
Only 18 missions to Mars have been successful.
As of September 2014 there have been 40 missions to Mars, including orbiters, landers and rovers but not counting flybys. The most recent arrivals include the Mars Curiosity mission in 2012, the MAVEN mission, which arrived on September 22, 2014, followed by the Indian Space Research Organization’s MOM Mangalyaan orbiter, which arrived on September 24, 2014. The next missions to arrive will be the European Space Agency’s ExoMars mission, comprising an orbiter, lander, and a rover, followed by NASA’s InSight robotic lander mission, slated for launch in March 2016 and a planned arrival in September, 2016.
Mars and Earth have approximately the
same landmass.
Even though Mars has only 15% of the Earth’s volume
and just over 10% of the Earth’s mass, around two thirds of the Earth’s surface
is covered in water. Martian surface gravity is only 37% of the Earth’s
(meaning you could leap nearly three times higher on Mars).
