The Chaotic Obliquity of Mars
- 26 February 1993
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 259 (5099), 1294-1297
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.259.5099.1294
Abstract
Numerical integration of the rotation of Mars shows that the obliquity of Mars undergoes large chaotic variations. These variations occur as the system evolves in the chaotic zone associated with a secular spin-orbit resonance.Keywords
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