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Mars from the InSight: Seismology Beyond Earth

  • Brigitte Knapmeyer-Endrun
  • , W. Bruce Banerdt
  • , Suzanne E. Smrekar
  • , Philippe Lognonne
  • , Domenico Giardini
  • , Caroline Beghein
  • , Eric Beucler
  • , Ebru Bozdag
  • , John Clinton
  • , Raphael F. Garcia
  • , Jessica C. E. Irving
  • , Taichi Kawamura
  • , Sharon Kedar
  • , Ludovic Margerin
  • , Mark P. Panning
  • , Tom W. Pike
  • , Ana-Catalina Plesa
  • , Nicholas Schmerr
  • , Nicholas Teanby
  • , Renee Weber
  • Mark Wieczorek, Salma Barkaoui, Nienke Brinkman, Savas Ceylan, Constantinos Charalambous, Nicolas Compaire, Nikolaj Dahmen, Martin van Driel, Anna Horleston, Quancheng Huang, Kenneth Hurst, Balthasar Kenda, Amir Khan, Doyeon Kim, Martin Knapmeyer, Jiaqi Li, Sabrina Menina, Naomi Murdoch, Clement Perrin, Martin Schimmel, Simon C. Stahler, Eleonore Stutzmann
  • University of Cologne
  • California Institute of Technology
  • Universite Paris Cite
  • Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain
  • University of California System
  • Nantes Universite
  • Colorado School of Mines
  • University of Bristol
  • Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)/Techniques de l'Ingénieurie Médicale et de la Complexité (TIMC)
  • Imperial College London
  • Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association
  • University of Maryland Medical System
  • National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA)
  • Universite Cote d'Azur
  • University of Zurich

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Abstract

WhenNASA's InSight lander touched down in Elysium Planitia, Mars, in November 2018 and deployed its seismometer SEIS, it ushered in a new age for planetary seismology - more than 40 years after the first attempt to record marsquakes with the Viking missions. SEIS, an extremely sensitive instrument, has by now provided near continuous seismic records for more than 3 years. Its rich dataset shows Mars to be seismically active, with over 1,300 marsquakes detected so far, mostly with magnitudes below 4. Despite their small size, these quakes provide important and unprecedented constraints on the interior structure of the planet, from the shallow subsurface via the crust, the lithosphere, and the mantle transition zone down to the core, and allow to study Martian tectonics and thermo-chemical evolution. Single-station seismology has answered some of the big questions about the interior of our planetary neighbour, and this contribution gives an overview of results and surprises so far.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProgresses In European Earthquake Engineering And Seismology
EditorsR Vacareanu, C Ionescu
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages74-89
Number of pages16
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-031-15104-0
ISBN (Print)978-3-031-15103-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event3rd European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (ECEES) - Bucharest, Romania
Duration: 4 Sept 20229 Sept 2022

Publication series

NameSpringer Proceedings In Earth And Environmental Sciences

Conference

Conference3rd European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (ECEES)
Country/TerritoryRomania
CityBucharest
Period4/09/229/09/22

Keywords

  • Interior structure
  • Mars
  • Seismology

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