Gravity aspects for Mars

0576086 - ASÚ 2024 RIV NL eng J - Journal Article
Klokočník, Jaroslav - Kletetschka, G. - Kostelecký, J. - Bezděk, Aleš
Gravity aspects for Mars.
Icarus. Roč. 406, December (2023), č. článku 115729. ISSN 0019-1035. E-ISSN 1090-2643
Institutional support: RVO:67985815
Keywords : gravity field of Mars * gravity aspects * MOLA topography
OECD category: Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)
Impact factor: 3.2, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2023.115729

We use the recent global gravity field model of Mars (Konopliv et al., 2020) and compute the gravity aspects (descriptors). We introduce a unique method working with the gravity aspects for Mars to achieve novel information about Mars for geologists, geophysicists and others than is feasible by using traditional gravity anomalies alone. New map of gravity aspects allows a better constraining of possible northern paleo-ocean using the MOLA topography, the combed gravity strike angles and features of the fretted terrain as constraints for a “mean” paleo-seashore. The Valles Marineris would contain water that would flow into this ocean.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0345943