NASA probably discovered quakes on Mars in the 1970s

NASA’s Viking 2 lander in all probability found quakes on Mars nearly 50 years in the past, however this has solely simply been confirmed due to information from the newer InSight probe.

In 1976, NASA launched two missions to Mars, Viking 1 and a pair of, to check the planet’s floor and seek for life. Both probes have been additionally outfitted with a seismometer to hunt for marsquakes, tremors on the Martian floor much like earthquakes, to see in the event that they existed.

Viking 1’s seismometer didn’t function, however Viking …