Patched Local Lunar Gravity Solutions Using GRAIL Data

Goossens, Sander; Fernández Mora, Álvaro; Heijkoop, Eduard; Sabaka, Terence J.

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Patched Local Lunar Gravity Solutions Using GRAIL Data

2021
By Goossens, Sander ; Fernández Mora, Álvaro ; Heijkoop, Eduard ; ...

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Earth and Space Science
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Goossens, Sander ; Fernández Mora, Álvaro ; Heijkoop, Eduard ; Sabaka, Terence J.
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CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences)
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We present a method to determine local gravity fields for the Moon using Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) data. We express gravity as gridded gravity anomalies on a sphere, and we estimate adjustments to a background global start model expressed in spherical harmonics. We processed GRAIL Ka-band range-rate data with a short-arc approach, using only data over the area of interest. We determine our gravity solutions using neighbor smoothing constraints.
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Earth and Space Science, 8(11)
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2021ea001695
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2333-5084 ; 2333-5084
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American Geophysical Union (AGU)
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