Evidence for Convection in Planetary Interiors from First-Order Topography

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Mar 1973

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1973moon....7..172l&link_type=abstract

The Moon, Volume 7, Issue 1-2, pp. 172-180

Physics

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Center of mass-center of figure offsets are known for the Earth, Moon, Mars and Venus. Such an offset requires a density distribution asymmetric about the center of mass. Observational evidence indicates that the terrestrial, lunar and Martian offsets result from crusts of variable thickness rather than lateral density inhomogeneities and that the thickness variations are more likely caused by internal convection than impact.

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