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Martian dust devil photographed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. This dust devil is 800 m (2,600 ft) tall and 30 m (98 ft) wide. This dust devil is 800 m (2,600 ft) tall and 30 m (98 ft) wide. The existence of dust devils on Mars was confirmed by analysis of data from the Viking probes in the early 1980s.
Mars is much less tectonically active than Earth, and marsquakes are unlikely to have provided seismic waves of the required magnitude. [10] Most sizable craters on Mars date to the Late Heavy Bombardment , 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago (the Noachian period), and are older than the landslide deposits in Valles Marineris.
NASA's InSight lander is fighting a layer of Mars dust that's covering its solar panels and causing a power shortage. Still, it made a big discovery. Wavering NASA lander detects biggest Mars ...
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The first meteor photographed on Mars (on March 7, 2004, by the Spirit rover) is now believed to have been part of a meteor shower whose parent body was comet 114P/Wiseman-Skiff. Because the radiant was in the constellation Cepheus , this meteor shower could be dubbed the Martian Cepheids.
On May 4, 2022, NASA's InSight lander detected the largest quake yet recorded on Mars, one with a 4.7 magnitude - fairly modest by Earth standards but strong for our planetary neighbor. Given Mars ...
It was the largest recorded ocean wave ever to strike the United States West Coast, and Harrington's report that that wave crested at the height of the lantern and that it buried the area between the lighthouse and the bluff in water which rose to the lighthouse's balcony suggests a possible wave height of 200 feet (61 m). [13]