Marsquakes reveal active fault zone in Mars's crust

[jim mcnamara]

TL;DR

Article describes previously unobserved active fault zone on Mars.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/12/first-active-fault-system-found-mars2/

Rumbling quakes on the red planet have been traced back to Cerberus Fossae, suggesting this geologically young region is still alive and cracking.1

One insight on this is seismometers on Mars can provide data driven inferences about Mars deep crust structure with reliably located fault zones.

Based on paper presented at AGU FallMeeting 2019 :
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/575405

 

[berkeman]

@davenn -- Time for a road trip?

 

[davenn]

Summary:: Article describes previously unobserved active fault zone on Mars....

very interesting, thanks for that gem