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SUBMITTER: Quillen AC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7489467 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Quillen Alice C AC Martini Larkin L Nakajima Miki M
Icarus 20190415
Using viscoelastic mass spring model simulations to track heat distribution inside a tidally perturbed body, we measure the near/far side asymmetry of heating in the crust of a spin synchronous Moon in eccentric orbit about the Earth. With the young Moon within. 8 Earth radii of the Earth, we find that tidal heating per unit area in a lunar crustal shell is asymmetric due to the octupole order moment in the Earth's tidal field and is 10 to 20% higher on its near side than on its far side. Tidal ...[more]