US EditionScientists Reveal What's Inside Mars: It's Chunky, With a History of Violence
Seismic data reveals Mars' mantle harbors ancient crust fragments up to 4 km wide, indicating a violent formation with massive impacts in its first 100 million years, researchers say.
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A new secret of Mars has just been revealed. One that defies what we believed to know about the way in which the rocky worlds are formed . And is that, far from being an orderly planet, with its well-defined layers of bark, mantle and core, the interior of the red planet resembles more a cake full of chaotically distributed trippings. This revolutionary image, arising from a study recently published in 'Science', rewrites the history of the neig…
Inside Mars, a 'rocky road' mantle reveals a violent past
Don’t let the appetizing description fool you. When planetary scientists say the interior of Mars resembles a rocky road brownie more than a piece of buttery shortbread, the tasty metaphor masks billions of years of geological violence. In a re-examination of previous observations collected by NASA’s decommissioned InSight probe, researchers have discovered that the Martian mantle is embedded with ancient fragments measuring as much as 2.5 miles…
The rock mantle of Mars is little mixed and contains fragments of different rocks dating back to its origin.
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The interior of Mars is not what textbook illustrations have always portrayed, with smooth, stratified layers—crust, mantle, and core—its innards are actually an irregular amalgamation of rocks that bear witness to its violent origin.
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