Mercury's gravity field from the first six months of MESSENGER data

A Genova, L Iess, M Marabucci - Planetary and Space Science, 2013 - Elsevier
The Mercury Surface, Space Environment, GEochemestry, and Ranging (MESSENGER)
spacecraft, launched on August 3, 2004, was inserted in a highly elliptical polar orbit around
the planet on March 18, 2011. One of the main mission goals is the determination of the
interior structure of the planet, enabled by a suite of instruments that includes the radio
system and a laser altimeter. Thanks to altimetric and radio observables, the topography and
the gravity field of the planet have been retrieved with good accuracy, especially in the north …
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