Detecting Earthquakes from Above Both Here - and on Venus?
Rock&Gem Magazine|December 2022
When we think of earthquake monitoring, we think of ground-based networks of seismometers, ground-hugging fiber-optic cables, and similar ground-based systems. After all, if trying to detect rumblings within the ground, shouldn't we hug the ground? Well, not necessarily per an article in Geophysical Research Letters.
JIM BRACE-THOMPSON
Detecting Earthquakes from Above Both Here - and on Venus?

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