Preparing for InSight: Evaluation of the Blind Test for Martian Seismicity

In December 2018, the NASA InSight mission deployed a seismometer on the surface of Mars. In preparation for the data analysis, in July 2017 the Mars Quake Service initiated a blind test, in which participants were asked to detect and characterize seismicity embedded in a one Earth year long synthetic dataset of continuous waveforms. Synthetic data were computed for a single station, mimicking the streams that will be available from InSight as well as the expected tectonic and impact seismicity, and noise conditions on Mars (Clinton et al. 2017). In total, 84 teams from 20 countries registered for the blind test and 11 of them submitted their results in early 2018. The collection of documentations, methods, ideas and codes submitted by the participants exceeds 100 pages. The teams proposed well established as well as novel methods to tackle the challenging target of building a global seismicity catalogue using a single station. This paper summarizes the performance of the teams, and highlights the most successful contributions.

Jiaxuan Li | B. Banerdt | Hao Hu | Amir Khan | Simon C. Stähler | Matthew P. Golombek | Eleonore Stutzmann | Cedric Twardzik | Martin van Driel | David Mimoun | Maren Böse | Diego Mercerat | Lucie Rolland | Tom Garth | Anne Deschamps | Julien Balestra | Philippe Lognonné | Alexandre Szenicer | Marcel Paffrath | Fabian Euchner | Renee C. Weber | Domenico Giardini | Mélanie Drilleau | Kasra Hosseini | Amir Allam | Conny Hammer | Brigitte Knapmeyer-Endrun | David Ambrois | Balthasar Kenda | Martin Schimmel | Naomi Murdoch | Céline Hadziioannou | Sharon Kedar | Claudia Haindl | Shane Zhang | Aymeric Spiga | Yingcai Zheng | Ludovic Perrin | Mark P. Panning | S. Ceylan | John Clinton | Hector Alemany | Dirk Becker | Marc S. Boxberg | Nienke Brinkman | Titus Casademont | Jérôme Chèze | Ingrid Daubar | Fabian Dethof | Manuel Ditz | David Essing | Benjamin Fernando | Raphael F. Garcia | Harriet Godwin | Katharina Grunert | Isabell Hochfeld | Tabea Kilchling | Andre Lamert | Sarah Mader | Lorenz Marten | Franziska Mehrkens | Thomas Möller | Paul Neumann | Robert Neurath | Fabrice Peix | Christoph Schröer | René Steinmann | Noah Trumpik | Maria Tsekhmistrenko | Philipp Werdenbach‐Jarklowski | M. Golombek | D. Giardini | J. Clinton | A. Allam | A. Spiga | A. Deschamps | L. Rolland | R. Weber | N. Murdoch | Yingcai Zheng | M. Panning | P. Lognonné | S. Kedar | B. Knapmeyer‐Endrun | M. Drilleau | Amir Khan | D. Mimoun | T. Möller | A. Lamert | B. Banerdt | É. Stutzmann | D. Becker | C. Hammer | I. Daubar | M. Schimmel | F. Euchner | Kasra Hosseini | Maria Tsekhmistrenko | C. Hadziioannou | M. Driel | M. Böse | L. Perrin | S. Ceylan | B. Kenda | D. Mercerat | T. Garth | Hao Hu | C. Twardzik | J. Balestra | H. Godwin | N. Brinkman | Jiaxuan Li | R. Neurath | P. Neumann | B. Fernando | F. Dethof | M. Paffrath | S. Stähler | Sarah Mader | F. Peix | Christoph Schröer | D. Ambrois | R. Steinmann | Isabell Hochfeld | J. Chèze | R. Garcia | Katharina Grunert | Alexandre Szenicer | David Essing | Hector Alemany | M. Boxberg | T. Casademont | M. Ditz | C. Haindl | Tabea Kilchling | L. Marten | Franziska Mehrkens | Noah Trumpik | Philipp Werdenbach‐Jarklowski | Shan Zhang

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