With data taken from InSight's seismometer, scientists now have an idea of how Mars experiences quakes. The way a quake looks and feels depends on the kind of material it passes through and to simulate a Marsquake, scientists used a quake simulator to compare them with those on the Moon and those we experience on Earth.
By running data from these worlds through a quake simulator, or “shake room,” scientists can experience for themselves how different the earthquakes can be. Researchers had to amplify the marsquake signals by a factor of 10 million in order to make the quiet and distant tremors perceptible in comparison to the similarly amplified moonquakes and unamplified earthquakes.
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ETH Zurich/ Van Driel)