High‒degree gravity models from GRAIL primary mission data

By F. LeMoine, S. Goossens, T. Sabaka, J. B. Nicholas, E. Mazarico, D. Rowlands, Bryant D Loomis, D. Chinn, D. Caprette, G. Neumann and 2 more. 2013

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Gravity and Topography of the Terrestrial Planets (2015, background): “During the 3 months of the primary mission, the two spacecraft had a mean altitude near 50 km, allowing for the construction of models up to spherical harmonic degree 660 (Konopliv et al., 2013b; Lemoine et al., 2013).”
Precession of Mercury’s Perihelion from Ranging to the MESSENGER Spacecraft (2017, methodology): “…of Earth and Moon were derived from planetary and lunar laser ranging (Folkner et al. 2014), which are compatible with results from satellite laser ranging of LAGEOS (Ries et al. 1992) and radio tracking of the GRAIL spacecraft (Konopliv et al. 2013; Lemoine et al. 2013; Williams et al. 2014).”
ITSG‐Grace2018: Overview and Evaluation of a New GRACE‐Only Gravity Field Time Series (2019, background): “, 2008), and solar radiation pressure (Lemoine et al., 2013) larger than 1,000 nm/s2 were removed.”
Summary of the results from the lunar orbiter laser altimeter after seven years in lunar orbit (2017, background): “The twin GRAIL spacecraft acquired accurate satellite-to-satellite range-rate data (0.03-0.05 μm/s precision over 1-2 s), which ultimately yielded an unprecedented resolution measure of the lunar gravity field (Zuber et al., 2013b; Konopliv et al., 2013; 2014; Lemoine et al., 2013; 2014).”