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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Geophysical Research. Planets Année : 2014

Lunar interior properties from the GRAIL mission

Ryan Park
Sami Asmar
Michael Watkins
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Jeffrey Andrews-Hanna
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James Head
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Walter Kiefer
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Isamu Matsuyama
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Patrick Mcgovern
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G. Jeffrey Taylor
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Maria Zuber
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The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission has sampled lunar gravity with unprecedented accuracy and resolution. The lunar GM, the product of the gravitational constant G and the mass M, is very well determined. However, uncertainties in the mass and mean density, 3345.56 ± 0.40 kg/m 3 , are limited by the accuracy of G. Values of the spherical harmonic degree-2 gravity coefficients J 2 and C 22 , as well as the Love number k 2 describing lunar degree-2 elastic response to tidal forces, come from two independent analyses of the 3 month GRAIL Primary Mission data at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Goddard Space Flight Center. The two k 2 determinations, with uncertainties of~1%, differ by 1%; the average value is 0.02416 ± 0.00022 at a 1 month period with reference radius R = 1738 km. Lunar laser ranging (LLR) data analysis determines (C À A)/B and (B À A)/C, where A < B < C are the principal moments of inertia; the flattening of the fluid outer core; the dissipation at its solid boundaries; and the monthly tidal dissipation Q = 37.5 ± 4. The moment of inertia computation combines the GRAIL-determined J 2 and C 22 with LLR-derived (C À A)/B and (B À A)/C. The normalized mean moment of inertia of the solid Moon is I s /MR 2 = 0.392728 ± 0.000012. Matching the density, moment, and Love number, calculated models have a fluid outer core with radius of 200-380 km, a solid inner core with radius of 0-280 km and mass fraction of 0-1%, and a deep mantle zone of low seismic shear velocity. The mass fraction of the combined inner and outer core is ≤1.5%.

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hal-02458600 , version 1 (26-06-2020)

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James Williams, Alexander Konopliv, Dale Boggs, Ryan Park, Dah-Ning Yuan, et al.. Lunar interior properties from the GRAIL mission. Journal of Geophysical Research. Planets, 2014, 119 (7), pp.1546-1578. ⟨10.1002/2013JE004559⟩. ⟨hal-02458600⟩
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