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NASA’s InSight mission to Mars will measure seismic signals to determine the planet’s interior structure. These highly sensitive seismometers are susceptible to corruption of their measurements by environmental changes. Magnetic fields, atmosphere pressure changes, and local winds can all induce apparent changes in the seismic records that are not due to propagating ground motions. Thus, InSight carries a set of sensors called the Auxiliary Payload Sensor Suite (APSS) which includes a magnetometer, an atmospheric pressure sensor, and a pair of wind and air temperature sensors. In the case of the magnetometer, knowledge of the amplitude of the fluctuating magnetic field at the InSight lander will allow the separation of seismic signals from potentially interfering magnetic signals of either natural or spacecraft origin. To acquire such data, a triaxial fluxgate magnetometer was installed on the deck of the lander to obtain magnetic records at the same cadence as the seismometer. Similarly, a highly sensitive pressure sensor is carried by InSight to enable the removal of local ground-surface tilts due to advecting pressure perturbations. Finally, the local winds (speed and direction) and air temperature are estimated using a hot-film wind sensor with heritage from REMS on the Curiosity rover. When winds are too high, seismic signals can be ignored or discounted. Herein we describe the APSS sensor suite, the test programs for its components, and the possible additional science investigations it enables.

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Acknowledgements

The work reported here on the IFG was supported by NASA/JPL under contract 1521593. We are grateful to Hannes Leinweber for his assistance with the testing of the magnetometer.

SISMOC center is supported by the French Space Agency CNES. We thank David Mimoun for his work developing and clarifying the APSS sensor requirements as they flow-down from SEIS requirements.

Concerning TWINS, the authors thank the Centro de Desarrollo Tecnológico e Industrial (CDTI), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (ESP2013-43503-R, ESP2014-54256-C4-1-R, ESP2015-68281-C4-1-R and ESP2016-79612-C3-1-R) and the Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA) of Spain for funding this project, and to CRISA (an Airbus Defence and Space Company) for the technological involvement in the project.

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  1. Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

    D. Banfield

  2. Centro de Astrobiologia, Madrid, Spain

    J. A. Rodriguez-Manfredi, S. Navarro, E. Sebastian, J. Gomez-Elvira, J. Torres, L. Mora, V. Peinado & A. Lepinette

  3. Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    C. T. Russell, K. M. Rowe, D. Leneman, H. R. Lai, P. R. Cruce, J. D. Means, S. P. Joy & P. J. Chi

  4. Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    C. L. Johnson & A. Mittelholz

  5. Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, USA

    C. L. Johnson

  6. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA

    I. G. Mikellides, K. Hurst, S. E. Smrekar & W. B. Banerdt

  7. Tavis Corporation, Mariposa, CA, USA

    S. Carpenter

  8. Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris-Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Diderot, 75013, Paris, France

    P. Lognonné

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Banfield, D., Rodriguez-Manfredi, J.A., Russell, C.T. et al. InSight Auxiliary Payload Sensor Suite (APSS). Space Sci Rev 215, 4 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-018-0570-x

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