Widespread evidence points to the existence of an ancient Martian ocean,,,,,,,. Most
compelling are the putative ancient shorelines in the northern plains,. However, these …

The Tharsis region is the largest volcanic complex on Mars and in the Solar System. Young
lava flows cover its surface (from the Amazonian period, less than 3 billion years ago) but its …

Abstract The Tonian supercontinent Rodinia is hypothesized to have included almost all
Proterozoic continental blocks. Competing models variably place South China at the core or …

True polar wander (TPW) is the reorientation of the crust-mantle system driven by the
redistribution of masses in the mantle and on the Earth's surface. In the ideal case …

Phobos and Deimos are the two small Martian moons, orbiting almost on the equatorial
plane of Mars. Recent works have shown that they can accrete within an impact-generated …

CH 4 has been observed on Mars both by remote sensing and in situ during the past 15 yr. It
could have been produced by early Mars serpentinization processes that could also explain …

Mass redistribution in the convecting mantle of a planet causes perturbations in its moment
of inertia tensor. Conservation of angular momentum dictates that these perturbations …

Existing approaches for simulating the true polar wander (TPW) of a viscoelastic body can
be divided into three categories:(i) a linear dynamic approach which uses the linearized …

For large‐angle long‐term true polar wander (TPW) there are currently two types of
nonlinear methods which give approximated solutions: those assuming that the rotational …

In past studies, the reorientation or true polar wander (TPW) of visco-elastic bodies has been
studied with approximated solutions. Two types of methods are commonly adopted: those …