Revealing Mars' deep interior: Future geodesy missions using radio links between landers, orbiters, and the Earth

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1069-1081

  Dehant, V ^a   Le Maistre, S ^a   Rivoldini, A ^a   Yseboodt, M ^a   Rosenblatt, P ^a   Van Hoolst, T ^a   Mitrovic, M ^a   Karatekin, O ^a   Marty, J C ^b   Chicarro, A ^c  

^a ROYAL OBSERVATORY OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

^b CNES   (France)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Geodesy; Mars core; Mars interior; Nutation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE DYNAMICS; KA BAND; LIGHT ELEMENTS; MARS CORE; MARS INTERIOR; MISSION CONSTRAINTS; NUTATION; TERRESTRIAL PLANETS; TIDAL EFFECTS;

CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; EARTH (PLANET); GEODESY; ROTATION; SURVEYING;

RADIO LINKS;

EID: 79961168100     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2010.03.014     Document Type: Article

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