New analyses of data from NASA’s InSight mission show that the majority of marsquakes arise from warm rocks near a set of young volcanic fissures. This ongoing seismicity reveals that this region was recently volcanically active and may remain so today.
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Andrews-Hanna, J.C. Marsquakes coming into focus. Nat Astron 6, 1349–1350 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-022-01860-3
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