1 resultado para Lunar geology.
em Repositório Institucional da Universidade Estadual de São Paulo - UNESP
Resumo:
We know that the orbit of a lunar satellite, and consequently its orbital lifetime is mainly inuenced by the gravitational field of the Moon, Earth and Sun. In this text we study the Lunar gravitational potential and its influence on the gravitational field. We adapted a program in order to map the Moon gravitational field. To that end it was necessary to develop a program that allows the simulation and mapping the lunar full potential. Our program was based on the program developed by Hélio Kuga, and adapted to our case (Moon). We used the model proposed by Konopliv et al. 2001, we proposed various degree and order expansions of spherical harmonics that served us to compare and validate our program