How large are present-day heat flux variations across the surface of Mars?
©2016. American Geophysical Union The first in situ Martian heat flux measurement to be carried out by the InSight Discovery‐class mission will provide an important baseline to constrain the present‐day heat budget of the planet and, in turn, the thermochemical evolution of its interior. In this stu...
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ftdepositonce:oai:depositonce.tu-berlin.de:11303/10632 2023-07-02T03:33:11+02:00 How large are present-day heat flux variations across the surface of Mars? Plesa, A.-C. Grott, M. Tosi, Nicola Breuer, M. Spohn, T. Wieczorek, M. A. 2020-01-27T12:39:38Z application/pdf https://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/10632 https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-9559 en eng 2169-9100 2169-9097 https://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/10632 http://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-9559 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ 550 Geowissenschaften heat flux Mars mantle convection thermal evolution elastic lithosphere thickness Article publishedVersion 2020 ftdepositonce https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-9559 2023-06-12T16:20:23Z ©2016. American Geophysical Union The first in situ Martian heat flux measurement to be carried out by the InSight Discovery‐class mission will provide an important baseline to constrain the present‐day heat budget of the planet and, in turn, the thermochemical evolution of its interior. In this study, we estimate the magnitude of surface heat flux heterogeneities in order to assess how the heat flux at the InSight landing site relates to the average heat flux of Mars. To this end, we model the thermal evolution of Mars in a 3‐D spherical geometry and investigate the resulting surface spatial variations of heat flux at the present day. Our models assume a fixed crust with a variable thickness as inferred from gravity and topography data and with radiogenic heat sources as obtained from gamma ray measurements of the surface. We test several mantle parameters and show that the present‐day surface heat flux pattern is dominated by the imposed crustal structure. The largest surface heat flux peak‐to peak variations lie between 17.2 and 49.9 mW m−2, with the highest values being associated with the occurrence of prominent mantle plumes. However, strong spatial variations introduced by such plumes remain narrowly confined to a few geographical regions and are unlikely to bias the InSight heat flux measurement. We estimated that the average surface heat flux varies between 23.2 and 27.3 mW m−2, while at the InSight location it lies between 18.8 and 24.2 mW m−2. In most models, elastic lithosphere thickness values exceed 250 km at the north pole, while the south pole values lie well above 110 km. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Pole South pole TU Berlin: Deposit Once North Pole South Pole |
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©2016. American Geophysical Union The first in situ Martian heat flux measurement to be carried out by the InSight Discovery‐class mission will provide an important baseline to constrain the present‐day heat budget of the planet and, in turn, the thermochemical evolution of its interior. In this study, we estimate the magnitude of surface heat flux heterogeneities in order to assess how the heat flux at the InSight landing site relates to the average heat flux of Mars. To this end, we model the thermal evolution of Mars in a 3‐D spherical geometry and investigate the resulting surface spatial variations of heat flux at the present day. Our models assume a fixed crust with a variable thickness as inferred from gravity and topography data and with radiogenic heat sources as obtained from gamma ray measurements of the surface. We test several mantle parameters and show that the present‐day surface heat flux pattern is dominated by the imposed crustal structure. The largest surface heat flux peak‐to peak variations lie between 17.2 and 49.9 mW m−2, with the highest values being associated with the occurrence of prominent mantle plumes. However, strong spatial variations introduced by such plumes remain narrowly confined to a few geographical regions and are unlikely to bias the InSight heat flux measurement. We estimated that the average surface heat flux varies between 23.2 and 27.3 mW m−2, while at the InSight location it lies between 18.8 and 24.2 mW m−2. In most models, elastic lithosphere thickness values exceed 250 km at the north pole, while the south pole values lie well above 110 km. |
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How large are present-day heat flux variations across the surface of Mars? |
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