11 January 2021, 9:47 pm EST By
Recently, a group of researchers found evidences that Mars contains a Chandler wobble. The researchers came from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology and the Royal Observatory of Belgium who published their findings in the Geophysical Research Letters with the title Detection of the Chandler Wobble of Mars From Orbiting Spacecraft . The data from the study has been obtained from decades of observations using space probes.
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Findings of the Mars Chandler Wobble Study
According to Phys Org, the study shows that unexpectedly for any close planetary system body other than the Earth, a chandler wobble has been identified on Mars. The Chandler wobble is characterized as a single component of the movement of the Mars turning hub or spinning axis on the surface of Mars. The movement has a time of 206.9 ± 0.5 days, an abundance of 10 cm on a superficial level, and is an alm