[S19-4] Science goals and modeling of the Insight/SEIS experiment

[S19-4-03] Preparing for InSight: a Blind Test for Detection and Location of Martian Seismicity

^○Domenico Giardini¹, John Clinton², Philippe Lognonne³, Bruce Banerdt⁴, Savas Ceylan¹, Martin Van Driel¹, Amir Khan¹, Mark Panning⁵, Maren Boese^1,2, Raphael Garcia⁶, Melanie Drilleau³, Davide Mimoun⁶, Naomi Mudoch⁶, B Kenda³, A Spiga⁷, Antoine Mocquet⁸, A Rivoldini⁹, O Verhoeven⁸, The SEIS Team¹⁰ (1.SEG, ETHZ, Switzerland, 2.SED, ETHZ, Switzerland, 3.IPGP, France, 4.JPL, USA, 5.U. Florida, USA, 6.ISAE, France, 7.LMD, France, 8.U. Nantes, France, 9.ROB, Belgium, 10.http://seis-insight.eu)

The NASA mission InSight will deploy a lander equipped with geophysical and meteorological sensors on the Martian surface at Elysium Planitia, including two 3-component ultra-sensitive seismometers, a very broadband sensor and a short period sensor. InSight mission goals include (1) providing one-dimensional models of Mars' mantle and core to within ±5% uncertainty, as well as three-dimensional velocity models of the crust; and (2) measuring the activity and distribution of seismic events on Mars, including both quakes and impacts. The InSight launch is targeted for May 2018, landing in November 2018, with nominal deployment for 1 Martian year. InSight will return continuous data at 2 sps with the option of retrieving specific data extracts at 20 sps.

In an effort to seek methodological advances and test current single-station location approaches, and also to raise awareness and level of preparation within the scientific community for the data that will arrive from Mars, the InSight team have designed a blind test where we provide a 12 month period of continuous waveform data that simulates, to the best of our knowledge, data that we can expect to retrieve from InSight. Synthetic seismograms from tectonic and impact events are combined with expected seismic noise. We broadly invite all interested scientists to participate by analysing these Martian seismograms and providing a Martian seismicity catalogue. The test is planned to begin on 1 June 2017, with the release of the test dataset and all supplementary material, and will close 6 months later on 1 December 2017. This presentation will summarise the scope of the blind test - including how we set up the synthetic dataset; how the InSight teams will scan the data and identify and characterize seismicity; how we will evaluate different catalogues; and of course we explain how scientists can contribute to the test.