Sentences with word «mascon»

The 1 - arc - deg NASA GSFC mascon solution data was resampled to a 998 x 1800 data array using Kriging interpolation.

We used the GRACE mascon data from ref.

Even though the lunar mascons were discovered in 1968 by Paul Muller and William Sjogren at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, they weren't fully mapped until 2001.

«Knowing about mascons means we finally are beginning to understand the geologic consequences of large impacts,» Melosh said.

Researchers generally agree mascons resulted from ancient impacts billions of years ago.

Improved methods for observing Earth's time variable mass distribution with GRACE using spherical cap mascons

There are localised increases caused by mass concentrations, or mascons, associated with the impact basins Imbrium, Crisium, Serenitatis and Orientale.

They pinpointed the locations of large, dense regions called mass concentrations, or mascons, which are characterized by strong gravitational pull.

27 and computed time series by averaging the mascons over (i) Greenland, (ii) Antarctica, and (iii) mountain glaciers and small ice caps (areas updated from ref.