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The Impact of a Meteorite on Mars
On Earth, we have seismometers on every continent. But on Mars, we just have one seismometer for the whole planet. We also have many, many fewer quakes on Mars than we do on Earth. How does a Mars quake happen then? A Mars quake so far as we've seen them is just a small quake of the sort you'd get inside a tectonic plate. They're not very big, but over the lifetime of the insight mission, we've managed to detect more than a thousand Mars quakes.
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