The deep interior of Venus, Mars, and the Earth: A brief review and the need for planetary surface-based measurements

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1048-1061

  Mocquet, Antoine ^a   Rosenblatt, Pascal ^b   Dehant, Véronique ^b   Verhoeven, Olivier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^b ROYAL OBSERVATORY OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Earth; Geophysics; Mars; Planetary interior; Venus

Indexed keywords

CORE RADIUS; CORE STRUCTURE; DATA SETS; DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; DENSITY VALUE; EARTH'S CORE; EARTH-LIKE PLANETS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GEODETIC DATA; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; HIGH PRESSURE AND HIGH TEMPERATURE; INNER CORE; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LONG LASTING; MAGNETIC DATA; MAGNETIC OBSERVATIONS; MANTLE DYNAMICS; MARS; MINERALOGICAL COMPOSITIONS; PHYSICAL STATE; PLANETARY INTERIORS; PLANETARY MATERIALS; PRECISE MEASUREMENTS; SURFACE OF MARS; SURFACE-BASED; TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS; THERMAL EVOLUTION; VENUS;

DYNAMICS; EARTH (PLANET); ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EXPERIMENTS; GALLIUM; GEODESY; HIGH PRESSURE ENGINEERING; MAGNETIC FIELDS; OLIVINE; SEISMOLOGY; SULFUR; SURFACES;

PLANETS;

EID: 79961167788     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2010.02.002     Document Type: Article

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