Constraints on the martian crust away from the InSight landing site

Jiaqi Li; Caroline Beghein; Scott M. McLennan; Anna C. Horleston; Constantinos Charalambous; Quancheng Huang; Géraldine Zenhäusern; Ebru Bozdağ; W. T. Pike; Matthew Golombek; Vedran Lekić; Philippe Lognonné; W. Bruce Banerdt

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-35662-y

Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

Constraints on the martian crust away from the InSight landing site

Jiaqi Li,
Caroline Beghein,
Scott M. McLennan,
Anna C. Horleston,
Constantinos Charalambous,
Quancheng Huang,
Géraldine Zenhäusern,
Ebru Bozdağ,
W. T. Pike,
Matthew Golombek,
Vedran Lekić,
Philippe Lognonné,
W. Bruce Banerdt

Affiliations

Jiaqi Li: Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California
Caroline Beghein: Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California
Scott M. McLennan: Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook University
Anna C. Horleston: School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol
Constantinos Charalambous: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London
Quancheng Huang: Department of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines
Géraldine Zenhäusern: Institute of Geophysics, ETH Zurich
Ebru Bozdağ: Department of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines
W. T. Pike: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London
Matthew Golombek: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Vedran Lekić: Department of Geology, University of Maryland
Philippe Lognonné: Université Paris Cité, Institut de physique du globe de Paris, CNRS
W. Bruce Banerdt: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35662-y
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The authors show that the Martian crust, ~4300 km from the InSight landing site, has a subsurface interface similar to that beneath the lander, suggesting it is a regional or global feature that may be related to the closure of pore spaces at depth.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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