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Re:Nasa’s InSight Lander Captures Audio of First Likely ‘Qua... by foota on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @07:55PM (#19743703)
"In contrast, Earth’s surface is quivering constantly from seismic noise created by oceans and weather."

Fascinating, I wouldn't have thought these would be measurable on a large area's scale.

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Re:Nasa’s InSight Lander Captures Audio of First Likely ‘Qua... by est31 on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @09:05PM (#19744049)
This omnipresent seismic noise is also a big challenge for building terrestrial gravitational wave detectors like LIGO. Even though the noise is "only" a bunch micrometers of movement, they had to deploy multiple levels of noise suppression to be able to measure gravitational waves: https://youtu.be/j4gE-hSQm68?t=1380
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