A combined team of researchers from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology and the Royal Observatory of Belgium, has found evidence that Mars has a Chandler wobble. In their paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the group describes their study of decades of data from Mars probes and what it showed them. Source: https://phys.org/news/2021-01-mars-chandler.html…
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A mysterious ‘wobble’ is moving Mars’ poles around
Like a teetering top, Mars refuses to rotate on a straight axis. Source: https://www.livescience.com/mars-chandler-wobble.html