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New Mars free-air and Bouguer gravity: Correlation with topography, geology and large impact basinsFree-air and Bouguer gravity anomalies from a 50x50 field (MGM635), derived at the Goddard Space Flight Center, with global topography, geology, and the distribution of large impact basins was compared. The free-air gravity anomalies were derived from re-analysis of Viking Orbiter and Mariner 9 tracking data and have a spatial resolution of 250-300 km. Bouguer anomalies were calculated using a 50x50 expansion of the current Mars topography and the GSFC degree 50 geoid as the equipotential reference surface. Rotational flattening was removed using a moment of inertia of 0.365 and the corrections from Table B2 of Sleep and Phillips. Crustal density and mean density were assumed to be 2.9 and 3.93 gm/cm(sup 3). The spherical harmonic topography used has zero mean elevation, and differs from the USGS maps by about 2 km. Comparisons with global geology use a simplified map with about 1/3 the number of units on the current maps. For correlation with impact basins, the recent compilation by Schultz and Frey was used.
Document ID
19940007796
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Frey, Herbert
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Bills, Bruce G.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Kiefer, Walter S.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Nerem, R. Steven
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Roark, James H.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Zuber, Maria T.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1993
Publication Information
Publication: Lunar and Planetary Inst., Twenty-fourth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Part 1: A-F
Subject Category
Lunar And Planetary Exploration
Accession Number
94N12268
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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