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Isolation of Seismic Signal from InSight/SEIS-SP Microseismometer Measurements

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The InSight mission is due to launch in May 2018, carrying a payload of novel instruments designed and tested to probe the interior of Mars whilst deployed directly on the Martian regolith and partially isolated from the Martian environment by the Wind and Thermal Shield. Central to this payload is the seismometry package SEIS consisting of two seismometers, which is supported by a suite of environmental/meteorological sensors (Temperature and Wind Sensor for InSight TWINS; and Auxiliary Payload Sensor Suite APSS). In this work, an optimal estimations inversion scheme which aims to decorrelate the short-period seismometer (SEIS-SP) signal due to seismic activity alone from the environmental signal and random noise is detailed, and tested on both simulated and Viking data. This scheme also applies a module to identify measurements contaminated by Single Event Phenomena (SEP). This scheme will be deployed as the pre-processing pipeline for all SEIS-SP data prior to release to the scientific community for analysis.

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We acknowledge the UKSA Aurora framework for supporting the principal and several co-authors.

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  1. STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, OX11 0QX, UK

    J. Hurley

  2. ISAE-SUPAERO, Toulouse, France

    N. Murdoch & D. Mimoun

  3. School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Queens Road, Bristol, BS8 1RJ, UK

    N. A. Teanby

  4. Atmospheric, Oceanic & Planetary Physics, Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU, UK

    N. Bowles, T. Warren & S. B. Calcutt

  5. Imperial College, London, UK

    W. T. Pike

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Hurley, J., Murdoch, N., Teanby, N.A. et al. Isolation of Seismic Signal from InSight/SEIS-SP Microseismometer Measurements. Space Sci Rev 214, 95 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-018-0523-4

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