• Determination of the lunar body tide from global laser altimetry data 

      Thor, Robin N.ORCIDiD; Kallenbach, Reinald; Christensen, Ulrich R.ORCIDiD; Gläser, PhilippORCIDiD; Stark, AlexanderORCIDiD; Steinbrügge, GregorORCIDiD; Oberst, Jürgen (Journal of Geodesy, 2020-12-23)
      We use global data from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) to retrieve the lunar tidal Love number h2 and find h2 = 0.0387 ± 0.0025. This result is in agreement with previous estimates from laser altimetry using ...
    • Equipotential Figure of Phobos Suggests Its Late Accretion Near 3.3 Mars Radii 

      Hu, XuanyuORCIDiD; Oberst, Jürgen; Willner, KonradORCIDiD (Geophysical Research Letters, 2020-03-30)
      The ellipsoidal figure of Phobos has been tentatively interpreted as resulting from accretion in a tidal environment close to its parent planet Mars. The issue is compounded by the rapid tidal decay of the moon's orbit. ...
    • Spatio‐Temporal Level Variations of the Martian Seasonal North Polar Cap From Co‐Registration of MOLA Profiles 

      Xiao, HaifengORCIDiD; Stark, AlexanderORCIDiD; Schmidt, FrédéricORCIDiD; Hao, Jingyan; Steinbrügge, GregorORCIDiD; Wagner, Nicholas L.ORCIDiD; Su, ShuORCIDiD; Cheng, YuanORCIDiD; Oberst, Jürgen (Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 2022-10-14)
      The seasonal deposition and sublimation of CO2 constitute a major element in Martian volatile cycles. We reprocess the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) data and apply co‐registration procedures to obtain spatio‐temporal ...
    • Spatio‐Temporal Level Variations of the Martian Seasonal South Polar Cap From Co‐Registration of MOLA Profiles 

      Xiao, HaifengORCIDiD; Stark, AlexanderORCIDiD; Schmidt, FrédéricORCIDiD; Hao, Jingyan; Su, ShuORCIDiD; Steinbrügge, GregorORCIDiD; Oberst, Jürgen (Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 2022-07-18)
      The seasonal deposition and sublimation of CO2 represents a major element in the Martian volatile cycle. Here, co‐registration strategies are applied to Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter profiles to obtain spatio‐temporal ...
    • Temperatures Near the Lunar Poles and Their Correlation With Hydrogen Predicted by LEND 

      Gläser, PhilippORCIDiD; Sanin, Anton; Williams, Jean‐PierreORCIDiD; Mitrofanov, Igor; Oberst, Jürgen (Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 2021-08-30)
      The lunar polar regions offer permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) representing the only regions which are cold enough for water ice to accumulate on the surface. The Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector (LEND) aboard the ...