Mercury's global topography and tidal signal from laser altimetry by using a rectangular grid

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 58, Issue 14-15, 2010, Pages 2022-2030

  Koch, Christian ^a   Kallenbach, Reinald ^a   Christensen, Ulrich ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

BepiColombo; Local basis functions; Long wavelength topography; Mercury; Rectangular grid; Tidal Love number

Indexed keywords

BEPICOLOMBO; LOCAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; LONG WAVELENGTH; LOVE NUMBERS; MERCURY; RECTANGULAR GRIDS;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC FUNCTIONS; MAPS; TIDES; TOPOGRAPHY;

MERCURY (METAL);

EID: 78449279324     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

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