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Reasenberg et al. 1981
Reasenberg, R.D., Goldberg, Z.M., MacNeil, P.E. and Shapiro, I.I. (1981). Venus gravity: A high-resolution map. Journal of Geophysical Research 86: doi: 10.1029/JB086iB08p07173. issn: 0148-0227.

The Doppler data from the radio tracking of the Pioneer Venus Orbiter (PVO) have been used in a two-stage analysis to develop a high-resolution map of the gravitational potential of Venus, represented by a central mass and a surface mass density. The two-stage procedure invokes a Kalman filter-smoother to determine the orbit of the spacecraft, and a stabilized linear inverter to estimate the surface mass density. The resultant gravity map is highly correlated with the topographic map dervied from the PVO radar altimeter data. However, the magnitudes of the gravity variations are smaller than would be expected if the topography were uncompensated, indicating that at least partial compensation has taken place.

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