Homework Help: astrophysics

Posted by cosmos on Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 1:46am.

Mars has a mean density less than the mean density of the Earth's mantle. How is it possible
that Mars could have a metallic core given this fact? Hint: No calculations are required.
Compare the densities used in part a) with the density of mantle rocks like basalt at one
terrestrial atmospheric pressure.

astrophysics - SraJMcGin, Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 9:56am
Multiple post. Please see the next post.

Sra

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