Reports The Chaotic Obliquity of Mars Jihad Touma1, Jack Wisdom2 1Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 2Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 + See all authors and affiliations Science 26 Feb 1993:Vol. 259, Issue 5099, pp. 1294-1297DOI: 10.1126/science.259.5099.1294 Jihad Touma Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139Find this author on Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for this author on this site Jack Wisdom Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139Find this author on Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for this author on this site Article Info & Metrics eLetters PDF Abstract Numerical integration of the rotation of Mars shows that the obliquity of Mars undergoes large chaotic variations. These variations occur as the system evolves in the chaotic zone associated with a secular spin-orbit resonance.
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