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‘Marsquakes’ reveal red planet’s hidden geology
Nature.com   13 December 2019  
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
<p>San Francisco, California<br />The marsquakes are coming fast and furious. From its landing site near the Martian equator, NASA&rsquo;s InSight mission is detecting about two quakes per day &mdash; and the rate is going up.<br />&ldquo;We have a lot,&rdquo; ...
Mars: we may have solved the mystery of how its landslides form
The Conversation   02 December 2019  
Cerberus Fossae, with steep slopes having active landslides. NASA
<p>Some landslides on Mars seem to defy an important law of physics. &ldquo;Long, runout landslides&rdquo; are formed by huge volumes of rock and soil moving downslope, largely due to the force of gravity. But their power is hard to account for. With volumes ...