Planned Products of the Mars Structure Service for the InSight Mission to Mars
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Author(s)
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The InSight lander will deliver geophysical instruments to Mars in 2018, including seismometers installed directly on the surface (Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure, SEIS). Routine operations will be split into two services, the Mars Structure Service (MSS) and Marsquake Service (MQS), which will be responsible, respectively, for defining the structure models and seismicity catalogs from the mission. The MSS will deliver a series of products before the landing, during the operations, and finally to the Planetary Data System (PDS) archive. Prior to the mission, we assembled a suite of a priori models of Mars, based on estimates of bulk composition and thermal profiles. Initial models during the mission will rely on modeling surface waves and impact-generated body waves independent of prior knowledge of structure. Later modeling will include simultaneous inversion of seismic observations for source and structural parameters. We use Bayesian inversion techniques to obtain robust probability distribution functions of interior structure parameters. Shallow structure will be characterized using the hammering of the heatflow probe mole, as well as measurements of surface wave ellipticity. Crustal scale structure will be constrained by measurements of receiver function and broadband Rayleigh wave ellipticity measurements. Core interacting body wave phases should be observable above modeled martian noise levels, allowing us to constrain deep structure. Normal modes of Mars should also be observable and can be used to estimate the globally averaged 1D structure, while combination with results from the InSight radio science mission and orbital observations will allow for constraint of deeper structure.
Date Issued
2016-11-30
Date Acceptance
2016-11-16
Citation
Space Science Reviews, 2016, 211 (1-4), pp.611-650
ISSN
0038-6308
Publisher
Springer Verlag
Start Page
611
End Page
650
Journal / Book Title
Space Science Reviews
Volume
211
Issue
1-4
Copyright Statement
© 2016 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. The final publication is available at Springer via https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11214-016-0317-5
Sponsor
UK Space Agency
Grant Number
ST/N001400/1
Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Mars
Seismology
Interior structure
InSight mission
RAYLEIGH-WAVE ELLIPTICITY
MONTE-CARLO INVERSION
APOLLO SEISMIC DATA
AMBIENT VIBRATION MEASUREMENTS
SPECTRAL-ELEMENT SIMULATIONS
RECEIVER-FUNCTION
UPPER-MANTLE
INTERIOR STRUCTURE
FREE OSCILLATIONS
CERBERUS FOSSAE
0201 Astronomical And Space Sciences
Publication Status
Published