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Space rocks hitting Mars
October 16 , 2022
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- The NASA InSight Lander has ‘heard’ and detected the vibrations of four space rocks hitting the surface of Mars over the past two years.
- This is the first time a mission has picked up both seismic and acoustic waves from an impact.
- It is also InSight's first detection of impacts since landing on Mars in 2018.
- The space rocks InSight tracked - one landing in 2020 and the other three in 2021.
- Mars is proximity to our solar system's asteroid belt.
- It is far more vulnerable than Earth to being struck by space rocks.
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