Low-magnetic crust underlying South Province of Mars

Details Low-magnetic crust underlying South Province of Mars Low-magnetic crust underlying South Province of Mars

Jan 2012

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2012icar..217..209a&link_type=abstract

Icarus, Volume 217, Issue 1, p. 209-230.

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The lack of distinct magnetic signatures observed by Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) over the impact craters and impact-related Quasi-Circular-Depressions (QCDs) with diameters greater than 200 km located on South Province, south of 30S and from almost the west of Hellas to Argyre basins, implies a weakly magnetized crust. Using MOLA topography and the recent JPL gravity model of Mars we determine the structure of the crust beneath the craters and impact-related QCDs, and show that the impacts that have created these features were capable of strongly disturbing the crust directly beneath. On the basis of theoretical magnetic anomaly modeling and shock demagnetization models, we demonstrate that the impacts are capable of demagnetizing the entire crust beneath and creating distinct magnetic anomalies at the satellite altitude of 400 km in case the crust was appreciably magnetized prior to the impacts. We derive the magnetic anomalies of these features using the radial component of the high-altitude nighttime MGS data. An upper limit of <2 × 104 A for the bulk magnetization of the crust beneath South Province is estimated, which is about 30 times less than that underlying Terra Cimmeria and Terra Sirenum. Similar weak bulk magnetization is obtained for part of the crust surrounding Hellas, Isidis, and Argyre basins.

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