scholarly journals Brief Introduction of Promoting the Chinese Program For Exploring the Martian System

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (H16) ◽  
pp. 165-165
Author(s):  
Jinsong Ping ◽  
Xian Shi ◽  
Nianchuan Jian ◽  
Sujun Zhang ◽  
Mingyuan Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gravity Field ◽  
Tracking System ◽  
Small Body ◽  
Open Loop ◽  
Deep Space Exploration ◽  
Global Gravity ◽  
Rosetta Mission ◽  
Phobos Grunt ◽  
Loop Technique ◽  
Mission Teams

AbstractFollowing the progress of Chinese deep space exploration step, since 2006 we started a Mars mission, Yinghuo-1, by join in the Phobos-Grunt mission of Russia. A satellite bus platform and onboard payloads as well as an innovative open-loop radio tracking system have been developed by mission team. Also, together with Russian and German colleagues, we developed a kind of in-beam tracking method for measuring the rotation and nutation of Phobos, and developed the 1st Phobos global gravity field for the mission. We are promoting the Chinese new mission for Mars exploration. Although the joint YH-1 & Phobos-Grunt mission failed, the new techniques and knowledge developed by mission teams may benifit the future missions. In fact, the open-loop technique have been applied into lunar and other planetary missions, and the method in developing Phobos global gravity field will be used in the study of Rosetta mission and future Chinese mission for small body.

Combining the deep Earth and lithospheric gravity field to study the density structure of the upper mantle

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bart Root ◽  
Javier Fullea ◽  
Jörg Ebbing ◽  
Zdenek Martinec
Keyword(s):  
Gravity Field ◽  
Shear Wave ◽  
Wave Velocity ◽  
Shear Wave Velocity ◽  
Field Data ◽  
Wavelength Region ◽  
Density Structure ◽  
Long Wavelength ◽  
Global Gravity ◽  
Deep Earth

<p>Global gravity field data obtained by dedicated satellite missions is used to study the density distribution of the lithosphere. Different multi-data joint inversions are using this dataset together with other geophysical data to determine the physical characteristics of the lithosphere. The gravitational signal from the deep Earth is usually removed by high-pass filtering of the model and data, or by appropriately selecting insensitive gravity components in the inversion. However, this will remove any long-wavelength signal inherent to lithosphere. A clear choice on the best-suited approach to remove the sub-lithospheric gravity signal is missing. </p><p>Another alternative is to forward model the gravitational signal of these deep situated mass anomalies and subtract it from the observed data, before the inversion. Global tomography provides shear-wave velocity distribution of the mantle, which can be transformed into density anomalies. There are difficulties in constructing a density model from this data. Tomography relies on regularisation which smoothens the image of the mantle anomalies. Also, the shear-wave anomalies need to be converted to density anomalies, with uncertain conversion factors related to temperature and composition. Understanding the sensitivity of these effects could help determining the interaction of the deep Earth and the lithosphere.</p><p>In our study the density anomalies of the mantle, as well as the effect of CMB undulations, are forward modelled into their gravitational potential field, such that they can be subtracted from gravity observations. The reduction in magnitude of the density anomalies due to the regularisation of the global tomography models is taken into account. The long-wavelength region of the density estimates is less affected by the regularisation and can be used to fix the mean conversion factor to transform shear wave velocity to density. We present different modelling approaches to add the remaining dynamic topography effect in lithosphere models. This results in new solutions of the density structure of the lithosphere that both explain seismic observations and gravimetric measurements. The introduction of these dynamic forces is a step forward in understanding how to properly use global gravity field data in joint inversions of lithosphere models.</p>

GRACE Follow-On Gravity Field Recovery from Combined Laser Ranging Interferometer and Microwave Ranging System Measurements

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saniya Behzadpour ◽  
Andreas Kvas ◽  
Torsten Mayer-Gürr
Keyword(s):  
Gravity Field ◽  
Laser Ranging ◽  
Measurement Technology ◽  
Additional Measurement ◽  
Covariance Functions ◽  
Gravity Field Recovery ◽  
Global Gravity ◽  
Least Squares Adjustment ◽  
Noise Covariance ◽  
Component Estimation

<p>Besides a K-Band Ranging System (KBR), GRACE-FO carries a Laser Ranging Interferometer (LRI) as a technology demonstration to provide measurements of inter-satellite range changes. This additional measurement technology provides supplementary observations, which allow for cross-instrument diagnostics with the KBR system and, to some extent, the separation of ranging noise from other sources such as noise in the on-board accelerometer (ACC) measurements.</p><p>The aim of this study is to incorporate the two ranging systems (LRI and KBR) observations in ITSG-Grace2018 gravity field recovery. The two observation groups are combined in an iterative least-squares adjustment with variance component estimation used to determine the unknown noise covariance functions for KBR, LRI, and ACC measurements. We further compare the gravity field solutions obtained from the combined solutions to KBR-only results and discuss the differences with a focus on the global gravity field and LRI calibration parameters.</p>

Estimation of the interior density of a small body given its gravity field

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfonso Caldiero ◽  
Sébastien Le Maistre ◽  
Véronique Dehant
Keyword(s):  
Gravity Field ◽  
Small Body

GRIM5-C1: Combination solution of the global gravity field to degree and order 120

2001 ◽  
pp. 149-149
Author(s):  
Thomas Gruber ◽  
Albert Bode ◽  
Christoph Reigber ◽  
Peter Schwintzer ◽  
Georges Balmino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gravity Field ◽  
Global Gravity

scholarly journals The combined global gravity field model XGM2019e

2020 ◽  
Vol 94 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Zingerle ◽  
R. Pail ◽  
T. Gruber ◽  
X. Oikonomidou
Keyword(s):  
Gravity Field ◽  
Field Model ◽  
Gravity Field Model ◽  
Global Gravity ◽  
Global Gravity Field Model

scholarly journals Evaluation of Gravity Data Derived from Global Gravity Field Models Using Terrestrial Gravity Data in Enugu State, Nigeria

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
O.I. Apeh ◽  
E.C. Moka ◽  
V.N. Uzodinma
Keyword(s):  
Gravity Field ◽  
Gravity Data ◽  
Gravity Anomalies ◽  
Mean Square ◽  
Bouguer Gravity ◽  
Bouguer Anomalies ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Global Gravity ◽  
Enugu State ◽  
Gravity Field Models

Abstract Spherical harmonic expansion is a commonly applied mathematical representation of the earth’s gravity field. This representation is implied by the potential coeffcients determined by using elements/parameters of the field observed on the surface of the earth and/or in space outside the earth in the spherical harmonic expansion of the field. International Centre for Gravity Earth Models (ICGEM) publishes, from time to time, Global Gravity Field Models (GGMs) that have been developed. These GGMs need evaluation with terrestrial data of different locations to ascertain their accuracy for application in those locations. In this study, Bouguer gravity anomalies derived from a total of eleven (11) recent GGMs, using sixty sample points, were evaluated by means of Root-Mean-Square difference and correlation coeficient. The Root-Mean-Square differences of the computed Bouguer anomalies from ICGEMwebsite compared to their positionally corresponding terrestrial Bouguer anomalies range from 9.530mgal to 37.113mgal. Additionally, the correlation coe_cients of the structure of the signal of the terrestrial and GGM-derived Bouguer anomalies range from 0.480 to 0.879. It was observed that GECO derived Bouguer gravity anomalies have the best signal structure relationship with the terrestrial data than the other ten GGMs. We also discovered that EIGEN-6C4 and GECO derived Bouguer anomalies have enormous potential to be used as supplements to the terrestrial Bouguer anomalies for Enugu State, Nigeria.

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