Lander radioscience for obtaining the rotation and orientation of Mars

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 57, Issue 8-9, 2009, Pages 1050-1067

  Dehant, Veronique ^a   Folkner, William ^b   Renotte, Etienne ^c   Orban, Daniel ^d   Asmar, Sami ^b   Balmino, Georges ^e   Barriot, Jean Pierre ^f   Benoist, Jeremy ^e   Biancale, Richard ^e   Biele, Jens ^g   Budnik, Frank ^h   Burger, Stefaan ^d   de Viron, Olivier ⁱ   Häusler, Bernd ^j   Karatekin, Özgur ^a   Le Maistre, Sébastien ^a   Lognonné, Philippe ⁱ   Menvielle, Michel ^k   Mitrovic, Michel ^a   Pätzold, Martin ^l   Rivoldini, Attilio ^a   Rosenblatt, Pascal ^a   Schubert, Gerald ^m   Spohn, Tilman ^g   Tortora, Paolo ⁿ   Van Hoolst, Tim ^a   Witasse, Olivier ^o   Yseboodt, Marie ^a   more..

^a ROYAL OBSERVATORY OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^d Orban Microwave Products (OMP)   (Belgium)

^e CNES   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE LA POLYNÉSIE FRANÇAISE   (French Polynesia)

^g GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^h ESA ESOC   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^j BUNDESWEHR UNIVERSITY MUNICH   (Germany)

^k SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^l UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^o EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

more..

Author keywords

Mars length of day; Mars nutation; Radioscience; X band signal

Indexed keywords

CORE RADIUS; DOPPLER MEASUREMENT; EXOMARS; FREE CORE NUTATIONS; GROUND STATIONS; ICE-CAPS; LARGE CORE; MARS LENGTH-OF-DAY; MARS NUTATION; MARTIAN SURFACE; MOMENT OF INERTIA; PRECISE MEASUREMENTS; RADIOSCIENCE; RELATIVE POSITIONS; RESONANCE AMPLIFICATION; SHORT PERIODS; SPIN-AXIS; SURFACE OF MARS; TIME VARYING; X-BAND SIGNAL;

AMPLIFICATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DOPPLER EFFECT; EXPERIMENTS; RADIO LINKS; RESONANCE; ROTATION;

EARTH (PLANET);

EID: 67649324944     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2008.08.009     Document Type: Article

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