Deep Internal Structure of Mars and the Geophysical Package of Netlander

Details Deep Internal Structure of Mars and the Geophysical Package of Netlander Deep Internal Structure of Mars and the Geophysical Package of Netlander

Jul 2000

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Concepts and Approaches for Mars Exploration, p. 194

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Geophysics

Mars Missions, Mission Planning, Mars Surface, Planetary Structure, Seismology, Geophysics, Mars (Planet), Seismic Waves, Seismographs, Magnetometers, Geodesy

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Our present understanding of the interior structure of Mars is mostly based on the interpretation of gravity and rotation data, the chemistry of the SNC (shergottites, nakhlites, chassignites) meteoroids, and a comparison with the much better-known interior structure of the Earth. However geophysical information from previous missions have been insufficient to determine the deep internal structure of the planet. Therefore the state and size of the core and the depth and type of mantle discontinuities are unknown. Most previous seismic experiments have indeed failed, either due to a launch failure (as for the Optimism seismometer onboard the small surface stations of Mars 96) or after failure on Mars (as for the Viking 1 seismometer). The remaining Viking 2 seismometer did not produce a convincing marsquake detection, basically due to too strong wind sensitivity and too low resolution in the teleseismic frequency band. After almost a decade of continuous activity and proposals, the first network mission to Mars, NetLander (NL), is expected to be launched between 2005 and 2007. One of the main scientific objectives of this four-lander network mission will be the determination of the internal structure of the planet using a geophysical package. This package will have a seismometer, a magnetometer, and a geodetic experiment, allowing a complementary approach that will yield many new constraints on the mineralogy and temperature of the mantle and core of the planet.

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