About this episode

The episode discusses the discovery of Marsquakes and unusual solid objects in Mars' interior detected by the InSight lander.

The InSight lander has detected the first ever ‘Marsquakes’... and revealed something strange going on in Mars’ interior. Deep beneath the crust, inside the molten mantle, InSight detected giant, chunky solid objects. What are they? And what can they tell us about how Mars and Earth formed?▀▀▀▀▀▀ Try Brilliant’s new interactive tutor for free and get 20% off an annual Premium subscription at https://brilliant.org/astrum/ ▀▀▀▀▀▀ Astrum's newsletter has launched! Want to know what's happening in space? Sign up here: ⁠https://astrumspace.kit.com⁠ A huge thanks to our Patreons who help make these videos possible. Sign-up here: ⁠ https://bit.ly/4aiJZNF

People in this episode

Host: Astrum

Topics covered

• Marsquakes
• Mars interior
• planetary formation
• InSight lander
• astronomy
• space exploration

Keywords

• Marsquakes
• InSight
• Mars
• Earth
• planetary science
• astronomy
• space exploration

Sponsors

Brilliant

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NASA, InSight

Places: Mars, Earth

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