
A quake on Mars may have set these rocks rolling
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Scientists mined high-resolution imagery of the Red Planet taken shortly after a recent temblor and found hundreds of new imprints left by tumbling boulders , researchers report September 2 in npj Space Exploration . Such rockfalls can be used as a proxy for seismic data, which is difficult to collect across the solar system.
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