An object left a big gash on Mars. It also spawned a quake.

Quakes shake Mars all the time. But many of these temblors originate in outer space. NASA's InSight lander recorded over 1,300 marsquakes between 2018 and 2022, including some monster temblors. Now, a novel analysis paired imagery captured by Mars-orbiting spacecraft with these unprecedented seismic detections to show that impacts on Mars aren't just common — they also commonly shake the Red Planet."Not one, but two recent related papers in the Geophysical Research Letters scientific journ