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- NASA has reported that, its InSight Mars lander detected the largest quake ever observed on another planet.
- The rover first landed on Mars in November 2018.
- And has since heard 1,313 quakes.
- On Earth, quakes are caused by shifts in tectonic plates.
- Mars, however, does not have tectonic plates, and its crust is a giant plate.
- Therefore, ‘marsquakes’ are caused due to stresses that cause rock fractures or faults in its crust.
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