Analysis of this data helps decipher the interior of the Red Planet, which is why detecting and studying this Martian earthquake is particularly important. For example, conclusions can be drawn about the composition, composition, and temperatures within a planet. Measurements have shown that shear waves in the crust move faster when rocks are shaken at a depth of 10 to 25 kilometers in a direction roughly parallel to the planet’s surface than when rocks are shaken in a vertical direction. “This information about wave velocity is related to deformations within the Earth’s crust,” Begin says. “An alteration of igneous rocks and layers of sediment that were deposited long ago, or a very large impact, such as a meteorite, is most likely the cause of the seismic measurements we observed.”
Shear waves also move faster in the southern highlands of Mars than in the northern lowlands. The northern hemisphere is low and crater. The large lowland influence has been the dominant theory to explain these differences. The new data indicates that this region may contain thick sediment layers with many pores. The gas trapped inside then dramatically slows the seismic waves.
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