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Substantial negative mass anomaly 1,200 kilometers deep appears to be causing Mars to spin faster
Here's one of the cool things you learn when you land a seismometer on another planet: Mars's days are getting shorter. Or to put it another way, the planet is spinning faster. That was discovered ...
Mars is rotating more quickly than it used to, according to data that NASA’s InSight lander collected on the red planet.The now-retired InSight was armed with a suite of instruments, including ...
Scientists have made the most precise measurements ever of Mars’ rotation, for the first time detecting how the planet wobbles due to the “sloshing” of its molten metal core. The findings, detailed in ...
Data from Nasa’s InSight Mars lander suggests the Red Planet’s rotation is strangely accelerating every year, leading to a fractional shortening of the length of the Martian day. The research, ...
Thanks to its InSight lander, NASA has been able to learn a lot about the mysterious planet of Mars over the past five years. But the agency’s latest findings seem to raise more questions than they ...
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