The mission team for NASA’s InSight lander called off its attempts to try to dig deeper into Mars with the heat probe known as “the mole.” Meanwhile, the rest of the mission gained an extension to December 2022. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/nasa-calls-halt-to-attempts-by-insight-mole-to-dig-into-mars…
Tag: seismic data
Human-linked Earth vibrations dropped 50% during Covid-19 lockdown
Between March and May 2020, many people across Earth went into lockdown. During those months, seismographs recorded a drop in human-linked vibrations in the solid Earth, by an average of 50%. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/covid19-lockdown-2020-caused-50-percent-global-reduction-human-linked-earth-vibrations…
Southern California Gets Ten Times As Many Earthquakes As We Thought
More than 1.81 million tiny quakes hit the region in nearly ten years.Source: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5wqng/southern-california-gets-ten-times-as-many-earthquakes-as-we-thought…