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Resonant obliquity of Mars?The large-scale oscillations generated by the obliquity of Mars through spin-axis and orbit-plane precessions constitute basic climate system drivers with periodicities of 100,000 yrs in differential spin axis-orbit precession rates and of over 1 million yrs in amplitude modulations due to orbital-inclination changes. Attention is presently given to a third time-scale for climate change, which involves a possible spin-spin resonance and whose mechanism operates on a 10-million-yr time-scale: this effect implies an average obliquity increase for Mars of 15 deg only 5 million yrs ago, with important climatic consequences.
Document ID
19920033138
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Ward, William R.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Rudy, Donald J.
(JPL Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 15, 2013
Publication Date
November 1, 1991
Publication Information
Publication: Icarus
Volume: 94
ISSN: 0019-1035
Subject Category
Lunar And Planetary Exploration
Accession Number
92A15762
Distribution Limits
Public
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