NASA has published a new study describing the first detection of an earthquake in 2019. The project is part of a technique developed to detect trend on Venus. Between July 4th and July 6, 2019, California was struck by a powerful sequence of earthquakes originating in Ridgecrest, California. These tremors have led more than 10,000 replicas after a six-week period.
NASA researchers have seized the opportunity offered by the quoices to test a technique developed to detect tremits on Venus. Researchers from NASA JPL and Caltech have stolen instruments attached to high altitude balloons on the region in the hope of the preconception of the first detection of natural earthquakes. The goal was to test the technology for future applications on Venus, where balloons with scientific instruments can float over the surface of the planet.
Scientists want to use balloons to explore Venus because the surface of the planet is extremely hot and inhospitable. On July 22, 2019, the balloons being tested on earth have been equipped with very sensitive barometers and one of them could detect the low frequency sound waves caused by a replica on the ground. The team described how a similar technique could be used to reveal mysteries on Venus.
One of the main exploration challenges of Venus is that the planet has a sufficiently hot surface temperature to melt lead and atmospheric pressures that can crush a submarine. Venus is an exploration target because it is inhospitable today, it is thought that it would have been once more hospitable before becoming the wasteland it is today. Scientists hope to learn what happened to Venus to make it so inhospitable.
One of the keys to understand the rocky world is to study what is inside, and one of the best ways to do it is to mise the seismic waves under its surface. Scientists can understand much on the inside of the earth to analyze the seismic waves in the regions as deep as the core of the earth. They hope to make the same observations on Venus using balloon technology.