Reflection imaging of the Moon's interior using deep-moonquake seismic interferometry
Abstract
The internal structure of the Moon has been investigated over many years using a variety of seismic methods, such as travel time analysis, receiver functions, and tomography. Here we propose to apply body-wave seismic interferometry to deep moonquakes in order to retrieve zero-offset reflection responses (and thus images) beneath the Apollo stations on the nearside of the Moon from virtual sources colocated with the stations. This method is called deep-moonquake seismic interferometry (DMSI). Our results show a laterally coherent acoustic boundary around 50 km depth beneath all four Apollo stations. We interpret this boundary as the lunar seismic Moho. This depth agrees with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) SELenological and Engineering Explorer (SELENE) result and previous travel time analysis at the Apollo 12/14 sites. The deeper part of the image we obtain from DMSI shows laterally incoherent structures. Finally, such lateral inhomogeneity we interpret as representing a zone characterized by strong scattering and constant apparent seismic velocity at our resolution scale (0.2–2.0 Hz).
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[2];
- Delft Univ. of Technology (Netherlands). Dept. of Geoscience and Engineering
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1495125
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-15-27729
Journal ID: ISSN 2169-9097
- Grant/Contract Number:
- 89233218CNA000001
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Geophysical Research. Planets
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 121; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 2169-9097
- Publisher:
- American Geophysical Union
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 58 GEOSCIENCES; Planetary Sciences; lunar structure; moonquakes
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Nishitsuji, Yohei, Rowe, Charlotte Anne, Wapenaar, Kees, and Draganov, Deyan. Reflection imaging of the Moon's interior using deep-moonquake seismic interferometry. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1002/2015JE004975.
Nishitsuji, Yohei, Rowe, Charlotte Anne, Wapenaar, Kees, & Draganov, Deyan. Reflection imaging of the Moon's interior using deep-moonquake seismic interferometry. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JE004975
Nishitsuji, Yohei, Rowe, Charlotte Anne, Wapenaar, Kees, and Draganov, Deyan. Sat .
"Reflection imaging of the Moon's interior using deep-moonquake seismic interferometry". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JE004975. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1495125.
@article{osti_1495125,
title = {Reflection imaging of the Moon's interior using deep-moonquake seismic interferometry},
author = {Nishitsuji, Yohei and Rowe, Charlotte Anne and Wapenaar, Kees and Draganov, Deyan},
abstractNote = {The internal structure of the Moon has been investigated over many years using a variety of seismic methods, such as travel time analysis, receiver functions, and tomography. Here we propose to apply body-wave seismic interferometry to deep moonquakes in order to retrieve zero-offset reflection responses (and thus images) beneath the Apollo stations on the nearside of the Moon from virtual sources colocated with the stations. This method is called deep-moonquake seismic interferometry (DMSI). Our results show a laterally coherent acoustic boundary around 50 km depth beneath all four Apollo stations. We interpret this boundary as the lunar seismic Moho. This depth agrees with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) SELenological and Engineering Explorer (SELENE) result and previous travel time analysis at the Apollo 12/14 sites. The deeper part of the image we obtain from DMSI shows laterally incoherent structures. Finally, such lateral inhomogeneity we interpret as representing a zone characterized by strong scattering and constant apparent seismic velocity at our resolution scale (0.2–2.0 Hz).},
doi = {10.1002/2015JE004975},
journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research. Planets},
number = 4,
volume = 121,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Apr 09 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Sat Apr 09 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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