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What are the effects of mass concentration along a planet's axis of rotation?
Does this mean that Mars' center of mass is slightly shifted to the south?
Yes, by about 3 kilometers, and it is also shifted by about 1.5 km along the y axis in the direction of Tharsis. See Table 4 ...
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