Astronomers have seen quakes or volcanos on many celestial bodies that don’t have tectonic plates like Earth does. So let’s take a look around the solar system and see how various seismic features happen.
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Original Episodes:
Why We Want to Find Plate Tectonics in Space
https://youtu.be/PyneXgty0UM
The First-Ever Map of Mars’s Interior
https://youtu.be/0HQiDPoT-4A
Moonquakes and Marsquakes
https://youtu.be/wRI6BwaKN9Y
Starquakes Could Be Behind 3 Cosmic Mysteries
https://youtu.be/gr3RjZneLI0
Io’s Underground Magma Ocean
https://youtu.be/vHmh7UJ2-O4
The First Time We Saw All of Venus: The Magellan Mission
https://youtu.be/kSPXrzxwtCE
Images:
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/illustration/plate-tectonics-royalty-free-illustration/520321874?phrase=tectonic%20plates&adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/eruption-of-the-fagradalsfjall-volcano-in-iceland-stock-footage/1333767839?phrase=volcanic%20eruption&adppopup=true
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mars_-_Valles_Marineris_-_Orbit_25_-_Hope_Mission_(51571684322).png
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/modern-moon-stock-footage/1047389688?phrase=moon&adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/african-sunset-time-lapse-with-big-sun-and-cloudless-sky-stock-footage/1358241966?phrase=the%20sun&adppopup=true
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Io_Volcanic_Eruption_Galileo.png
https://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/pia00104.html
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