Searching the InSight Seismic Data for Mars’s Background-Free Oscillations
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2025-01
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Mars’s atmosphere has theoretically been predicted to be strong enough to continuously excite Mars’s background-free oscillations, potentially providing an independent means of verifying radial seismic body-wave models of Mars determined from marsquakes and meteorite impacts recorded during the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport (InSight) mission. To extract the background-free oscillations, we processed and analyzed the continuous seismic data, consisting of 966 Sols (a Sol is equivalent to a Martian day), collected by the Mars InSight mission using both automated and manual deglitching schemes to remove nonseismic disturbances. We then computed 1-Sol-long autocorrelations for the entire data set and stacked these to enhance any normal-mode peaks present in the spectrum. We find that while peaks in the stacked spectrum in the 2–4 mHz frequency band align with predictions based on seismic body-wave models and appear to be consistent across the different processing and stacking methods applied, unambiguous detection of atmosphere-induced free oscillations in the Martian seismic data nevertheless remains difficult. This possibly relates to the limited number of Sols of data that stack coherently and the continued presence of glitch-related signal that affects the seismic data across the normal-mode frequency range (∼1–10 mHz). Improved deglitching schemes may allow for clearer detection and identification in the future.
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96 (1)
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377 - 393
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Seismological Society of America
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03476 - Giardini, Domenico / Giardini, Domenico
09495 - Murakami, Motohiko / Murakami, Motohiko