SEIS raw data, Insight Mission

Basic Network Information

FDSN Network code

XB (2016-2022)

Network name

SEIS InSight Mission Data

Start year

2016

End year

2022

Identifier

10.18715/SEIS.INSIGHT.XB_2016

Creator

InSight Mars SEIS Data Service

Datacite

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Abstract

The NASA InSight mission deployed onto Mars' surface the SEIS (Seismic Experiment for Internal Structure) instrument shortly after its landing on November, 26, 2018; a six-axes seismometer equipped with both a long-period three-axes Very Broad Band (VBB) instrument and a three-axes short-period (SP) instrument.

These six sensors will cover a broad range of the seismic bandwidth, from 0.01 Hz to 50 Hz, with possible extension to longer periods. Data are transmitted in the form of continuous VBB and SP components and are augmented by requested event data with higher sampling rate.

SEIS will improve upon the existing resolution of Viking's Mars seismic monitoring by a factor of ~2500 at 1 Hz and ~200000 at 0.1 Hz.

Contrary to Viking, the seismometer has been deployed via a robotic arm directly onto Mars' surface and is protected against temperature and wind by highly efficient thermal and wind shielding.

Very low noise has therefore been obtained, especially during the night by the VBB instrument.

These data consist of all SEIS data, including the House Keeping data requested to monitor the instrument health.

Data Citation and Acknowledgements

SEIS data must be cited (see citation and DOI below) and their use acknowledged as indicated below. In addition the SEIS experiment paper (Lognonné et al., 2019) shall be used as primary reference for the instrument description as well as other SEIS team papers used by the user for the analysis. For a collection of SEIS papers, see Banerdt and Russel, 2017 and Banerdt and Russel, 2019.

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.18715/SEIS.INSIGHT.XB_2016

Licence

CC BY 4.0

Citation

InSight Mars SEIS Data Service. (2019). SEIS raw data, Insight Mission. IPGP, JPL, CNES, ETHZ, ICL, MPS, ISAE-Supaero, LPG, MFSC. https://doi.org/10.18715/SEIS.INSIGHT.XB_2016

Acknowledgements

In addition, the following sentence must be also provided to acknowledge the SEIS operators:

"We acknowledge NASA, CNES, their partner agencies and Institutions (UKSA, SSO, DLR, JPL, IPGP-CNRS, ETHZ, IC, MPS-MPG) and the flight operations team at JPL, SISMOC, MSDS, IRIS-DMC and PDS for providing SEED SEIS data.”

Related references

Description of the SEIS experiment:

Lognonné P., Banerdt W.B., Giardini D., Pike W.T., Christensen U. and al. Space Sci Rev (2019) 215: 12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-018-0574-6

Series of InSight papers:

W.B.Banerdt and C.T.Russel, The InSight mission to Mars, 211, 2017 (series of 25 articles https://link.springer.com/journal/11214/211/1/page/1)

W.B.Banerdt and C.T Russel, The InSight mission to Mars II, 2019 (series of 26 articles https://link.springer.com/journal/11214/topicalCollection/AC_966185ad44bc43380e728f66a3eba792)

Data Access

Data collected

2018-05-05/2022-12-31

Data formats

FDSN SEED data, FDSN stationxml for metadata

Data size

1 station and 100-250 Mb per day

Data description

https://www.seis-insight.eu/en/science

Data available from

IPGP Data Center:
    http://ws.ipgp.fr/fdsnws/station/1
    http://ws.ipgp.fr/fdsnws/dataselect/1

The IRIS Data Management Center (IRISDMC):
    http://service.iris.edu/fdsnws/station/1/
    http://service.iris.edu/fdsnws/dataselect/1/

Planetary Data System Geoscience node

Stations in XB Network