EGU23-14918, updated on 20 Oct 2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-14918
EGU General Assembly 2023
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The Marsquake Service since the InSight mission to Mars

Doyeon Kim1, John Clinton2, Savas Ceylan1, Anna Horleston3, Simon Stähler1, Taichi Kawamura4, Constantinos Charalambous5, Nikolaj Dahmen1, Cecilia Duran1, Matthieu Plasman4, Géraldine Zenhäusern1, Fabian Euchner1, Martin Knapmeyer6, Domenico Giardini1, Philippe Lognonné4, Tom Pike5, Mark Panning7, and William Banerdt7
Doyeon Kim et al.
  • 1ETH Zurich, Institute of Geophysics, Department of Earth Sciences, Switzerland (doyeon.kim@erdw.ethz.ch)
  • 2Swiss Seismological Service, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  • 3School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
  • 4Universit´e Paris Cit´e, Institut de physique du globe de Paris, CNRS, Paris, France
  • 5Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.
  • 6Institute of Planetary Research, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Berlin, Germany.
  • 7Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA.

After ~4 years of deployment on the martian surface monitoring the planet’s ground motion, the InSight seismometer is now retired. Here, we review the procedures and methods the Marsquake Service (MQS) used to curate the seismic event catalog and describe the content of the catalog. The marsquake catalogue is different from normal catalogues on Earth as it aims to provide the authoritative catalog for the mission, covering the entire planet, using only a single station. As of January 1st, 2023, the MQS catalog contains 1319 seismic events of which 6 are known meteorite impacts. We have also identified 1383 superhigh frequency events that are interpreted as thermal cracking nearby the InSight lander. Late in the project large distant events occurred that allowed MQS to detect surface waves. Multiple events have been associated as impacts using orbital imaging, confirming the MQS single station location procedures. All of these new seismic phases have contributed to advance our understanding of the internal structure of Mars. The marsquake S1222a, the largest event recorded during the mission (MW 4.7) occurred in March 2022 and is also documented in our latest MQS catalog, V13, with many associated seismic phases including both Rayleigh and Love waves, their first-order overtones, and multi-orbiting surface waves that have not been identified in other marsquake records from our previous catalogues. The InSight mission is now closed but the MQS operation continues to analyze the ~4 years of seismic recordings on Mars and a final catalog, including event-specific products such as filter banks, and spectra, is in preparation. This final catalog will inform capabilities and field strategies in geophysical explorations for future martian science missions.

How to cite: Kim, D., Clinton, J., Ceylan, S., Horleston, A., Stähler, S., Kawamura, T., Charalambous, C., Dahmen, N., Duran, C., Plasman, M., Zenhäusern, G., Euchner, F., Knapmeyer, M., Giardini, D., Lognonné, P., Pike, T., Panning, M., and Banerdt, W.: The Marsquake Service since the InSight mission to Mars, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 23–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-14918, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-14918, 2023.