Room: Exhibit Hall A+B
Date: 4/15/2026
Session Time: 8:00 AM to 5:45 PM (local time)
Planetary and Gravitational Wave Seismology
Seismology is not anymore the appanage of the Earth, with several past and future planetary missions with deployed seismometers on the Moon (with Apollo and, in near future FSS, LEMS and ChangE-7), on Mars (with Viking and InSight) and other future missions toward Titan (Dragonfly). Seismology is also not only used to search for quakes and other seismic sources, but is also considered for recording planetary vibrations excited by space-time metrics fluctuations associated to gravitational waves. This was the goal of the Apollo 17 gravimeter and will be the goal of several lunar projects aiming to measure strains variations (e.g., LILA) or ground accelerations (e.g., LGWA) generated by gravitational waves emitted by black holes merging, among other astrophysical sources.
The goal of this session is to present the most recent analysis in planetary seismology and in seismic analysis related to gravitational waves detections, including for future projects.
In planetary seismology, we will welcome presentations on recent analysis of the InSight and Apollo seismic data, as well as progress status of selected projects and performances of new instruments or detection concepts in development for future planetary missions. Targets might be terrestrial bodies (e.g., Mars, the Moon, Titan, Venus) but also small bodies. We will also welcome numeral modeling aiming to better understand and model future data and seismic sources on other bodies, including impacts, airburst and atmospheric sources.
In gravitational waves, we will welcome concept and instruments descriptions, as well as modeling of the expected signals and of all sources of noise which might affect detection of GW signals, especially for the Moon which is targeted by several projects. We welcome presentations especially related to the seismic aspects of GW detection, such as estimations of the signals for 1D and 3D realistic lunar models and modeling of the seismic noise and other lunar environmental noises.
Conveners
Karan Jani, Vanderbilt University (karan.jani@Vanderbilt.Edu)
Philippe H. Lognonné, Paris Institute of Earth Physics (lognonne@ipgp.fr)
Mark P. Panning, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (mark.p.panning@jpl.nasa.gov)
Nicholas C. Schmerr, University of Maryland (nschmerr@umd.edu)
Poster Presentations
| Participant Role | Details | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Submission | Using Inertial Measurement Units as Seismometers for Planetary Missions | View |
| Submission | High-resolution Characterization of Seismic Scattering in the Lunar Near-surface From Observations and Synthetic Records | View |
| Submission | Probing Small-scale Lunar Mantle Heterogeneities Using High-frequency P-wave Scattering from Shallow Moonquakes | View |
| Submission | Seismological Characterization of the Sardinia (Italy) Candidate Site for the Einstein Telescope | View |
| Submission | Early Earthquake Detection With Elasto-gravitational Waves | View |
| Submission | Determining Lunar Interior Structure through LILA, a Lunar Gravitational Wave Observatory Concept | View |
| Submission | WITHDRAWN A Microseismometer for Venus | View |
| Submission | Seismic Evidence of Active Deep Crustal Deformation Beneath Valles Marineris, Mars | View |
| Submission | Detection of a Martian Long Range Thermospheric Acoustic Wave by SEIS/InSight | View |
| Submission | Benchmarking Single-station Focal Mechanism Inversion to Characterize Martian Crustal Anisotropy | View |
Planetary and Gravitational Wave Seismology [Poster]
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