Tidal Response of Mars Constrained From Laboratory‐Based Viscoelastic Dissipation Models and Geophysical Data

We employ laboratory‐based grain size‐ and temperature‐sensitive rheological models to describe the viscoelastic behavior and tidal response of terrestrial bodies with focus on Mars. We consider five rheological models: Maxwell, extended Burgers, Andrade, Sundberg‐Cooper, and a power law approximation. The question of which model provides the most appropriate description of dissipation in planetary bodies, remains an open issue. To examine this,...