The gravity field of Mars: Results from Mars global surveyor

Science

Volumn 286, Issue 5437, 1999, Pages 94-97

  Smith, David E ^a   Sjogren, William L ^b   Tylter, G Leonard ^c   Balmino, Georges ^d   Lemoine, Frank G ^a   Konopliv, Alex S ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Grp de Rech de Geodesie Spatiale   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY FIELD; MARS;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; GEOLOGY; GRAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOPOGRAPHY; VOLCANO;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; LONG DURATION; MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR PROJECT; UNMANNED;

ATMOSPHERE; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; HYPERGRAVITY; ICE; MARS;

PATERA;

EID: 0033213952     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.286.5437.94     Document Type: Article

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45. The data used in this study will be deposited with the NASA Planetary Data System (http://pds-geophys. wustl.edu/pds/) 1 October 1999. We gratefully acknowledge P. Priest, S. Abbate, S. Asmar, and M. Connally for the observations; G Neumann, S. Fricke, and D. Yuan for data analysis; and R. Simpson and J. Twicken for data assessment and archiving. We thank the MCS spacecraft and operation teams at JPL and Lockheed-Martin Astronautics in the management of the MGS mission and M. Zuber for stimulating and helpful discussions regarding the interpretation. This investigation was supported by the NASA Mars Global Surveyor Project