Structure of crust on Mars

该项目旨在启动一个新的多学科领域，将撞击物理学和地震学联系起来。该项目涉及对流星体撞击引起的火星地震活动进行数字建模，使用最先进的水文代码、一个国家超级计算设施以及甜点火球网络在寻找陨石方面积累的知识。高分辨率的数值结果将有助于分析即将到来的InSight火星使命（2018年）获得的撞击地震数据，其唯一重要目标是破译火星的地壳结构，这是太阳系中与地球最相似的行星。

This project aims to start a new multidisciplinary field linking impact physics and seismology. This project involves numerical modelling of meteoroid impact-induced seismic activity on Mars, using the state-of-the-art hydro-code, a national supercomputing facility, and knowledge built on the meteorite hunting by the Dessert Fireball Network. High-resolution numerical results will aid the analyses of impact-seismic data obtained by the forthcoming InSight mission to Mars (in 2018) with a single important aim, to decipher the crustal structure of Mars, the planet that is the most similar to the Earth in our solar system.