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List of works by Ana-Catalina Plesa

A Geophysical Perspective on the Bulk Composition of Mars

scientific article published in February 2018

A Particle-in-Cell Method to Model the Influence of Partial Melt on Mantle Convection

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An Ancient Martian Dynamo Driven by Hemispheric Heating: Effect of Thermal Boundary Conditions

scientific article published in January 2023

An autonomous lunar geophysical experiment package (ALGEP) for future space missions

An empirical melting model for the Martian mantle

scientific article published on 2 May 2024

Andrade rheology in planetary science

scientific article published on 23 July 2023

Approximating 3D Models of Planetary Evolution in 2D: A Comparison of Different Geometries

scientific article published on 23 July 2023

Approximating 3D Models of Planetary Evolution in 2D: A Comparison of Different Geometries

scientific article published on 8 July 2023

Assessing the Accuracy of 2‐D Planetary Evolution Models Against the 3‐D Sphere

scholarly article

Can a fractionally crystallized magma ocean explain the thermo-chemical evolution of Mars?

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Can the interior structure influence the habitability of a rocky planet?

Compositional convection in Europa’s ice shell: a scale-coupled approach

scientific article published on 2 May 2024

Concepts to utilize planetary analogue studies for icy moon exploration missions

scientific article published on 4 March 2021

Constraining the interior structure and thermal state of Venus

scientific article published on 3 July 2024

Constraining the interior structure and thermal state of Venus

scientific article published on 9 March 2024

Constraining the interior structure of crustal plateaus on Venus in the context of future space missions

scientific article published on 3 July 2024

Constraints on Martian Crustal Lithology from Seismic Velocities by InSight

scientific article published on 15 May 2023

Constraints on Thermal History of Mars From Depth of Pore Closure Below InSight

scientific article published on 11 August 2020

Constraints on the shallow elastic and anelastic structure of Mars from InSight seismic data

scientific article published on 24 February 2020

Convection and melting in a heterogenous lunar mantle

scientific article published on 2 May 2024

Corrigendum to “Radiolytic H2 production on Noachian Mars: Implications for habitability and atmospheric warming” [Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 502 (2018) 133–145]

scientific article published in January 2020

Coupling ice-ocean interface models with global-scale ice shell evolution models applied to Jovian moon Europa

scientific article published on 15 May 2023

Deep Trek: Mission Concepts for Exploring Subsurface Habitability & Life on Mars — A Window into Subsurface Life in the Solar System

scientific article published on 18 March 2021

Deep Trek: Science of Subsurface Habitability & Life on Mars

scientific article published on 18 March 2021

Delta Deposits on Mars: A Global Perspective

scientific article published on 8 September 2021

Delta Deposits on Mars: A Global Perspective

scientific article published on 4 March 2021

Dynamics and Evolution of Venus’ Mantle Through Time

journal article

Earth-like Habitable Environments in the Subsurface of Mars

scientific article published in June 2021

Effects of 3D structure on Martian seismic waves

scientific article published on 23 September 2022

Effects of magmatic styles on the thermal evolution of planetary interiors

scientific article published on 3 July 2024

Elastic Thickness and Heat Flux Variations on Mercury from Thermal Evolution Modeling

scientific article published on 23 September 2022

Estimating the seismicity of Venus by scaling Earth’s seismicity

scientific article published on 15 May 2023

Estimation of the Seismic Moment Rate from an Incomplete Seismicity Catalog, in the Context of the InSight Mission to Mars

scientific article

Glacial isostatic adjustment on Mars

scientific article published on 3 July 2024

Global Crustal Thickness Revealed by Surface Waves Orbiting Mars

scientific article published on 22 June 2023

Global crustal thickness revealed by surface waves orbiting Mars

scientific article published on 6 March 2023

Hemispheric Dichotomy in Lithosphere Thickness on Mars Caused by Differences in Crustal Structure and Composition

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Homogeneous versus heterogeneous lunar mantle: Constraints from secondary crust production

scientific article published on 23 September 2022

How large are present-day heat flux variations across the surface of Mars?

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Ice Transit and Performance Analysis for Cryorobotic Subglacial Access Missions on Earth and Europa

scientific article published on 15 May 2023

Impact-induced changes in source depth and volume of magmatism on Mercury and their observational signatures

scientific article published on 5 December 2017

InSight Constraints on the Global Character of the Martian Crust

scientific article published in May 2022

InSight Mission Will Reveal Mars' Past Hidden Just Five Meters Below Its Surface

scholarly article

Initial results from the InSight mission on Mars

scientific article published on 24 February 2020

Interannual perturbations of the Martian surface heat flow by atmospheric dust opacity variations

scientific article published in October 2016

Interior Dynamics and Thermal Evolution of Mars – a Geodynamic Perspective

scientific article published on 23 September 2022

Interior structure and tidal response of Venus: Implications for future missions

scientific article published on 2 May 2024

Large Scale Numerical Simulations of Planetary Interiors

Large-scale dynamics and the fate of salts in Europa's icy shell

scientific article published on 23 September 2022

MAGMARS: A Melting Model for the Martian Mantle and FeO‐Rich Peridotite

Magma Ocean Cumulate Overturn and Its Implications for the Thermo-chemical Evolution of Mars

Mars Soil Temperature and Thermal Properties From InSight HP3 Data

scientific article published on 24 September 2024

Mars Soil Temperature and Thermal Properties from InSight HP^3 Data

scientific article published on 2 February 2024

Mars' Subsurface Environment: Where to Search for Groundwater?

scientific article published on 2 May 2024

Mercury's Crustal Porosity as Constrained by the Planet's Bombardment History

scientific article published on 7 November 2024

Mercury's crustal porosity as constrained by the planet's bombardment history

scientific article published on 10 June 2024

Mercury's low-degree geoid and topography controlled by insolation-driven elastic deformation

scholarly article

Modeling melting of the Martian mantle and crust-mantle differentiation with global thermochemical evolution models

scientific article published on 24 November 2020

Moons crust evolution: combining petrological with geodynamical models

scientific article published on 3 July 2024

On the Detectability and Use of Normal Modes for Determining Interior Structure of Mars

Onset of solid-state mantle convection and mixing during magma ocean solidification

Overturn and evolution of a crystallized magma ocean: A numerical parameter study for Mars

scholarly article by Nicola Tosi et al published July 2013 in Journal of geophysical research. Planets

PLANET TOPERS: Planets, Tracing the Transfer, Origin, Preservation, and Evolution of their ReservoirS.

scientific article published on 23 June 2016

Partial melting in one-plate planets: Implications for thermo-chemical and atmospheric evolution

article by A.-C. Plesa et al published August 2014 in Planetary and Space Science

Planned Products of the Mars Structure Service for the InSight Mission to Mars

article by Mark P. Panning et al published 30 November 2016 in Space Science Reviews

Pre-mission InSights on the Interior of Mars

article by Suzanne E. Smrekar et al published 17 December 2018 in Space Science Reviews

Present-Day Mars' Seismicity Predicted From 3-D Thermal Evolution Models of Interior Dynamics

scholarly article by A.-C. Plesa et al published 28 March 2018 in Geophysical Research Letters

Present-day surface heat flux variations on the Moon from global geodynamic and crustal thickness models

scientific article published on 11 March 2024

Radiolytic H2 production on Noachian Mars: Implications for habitability and atmospheric warming

scholarly article published in November 2018

Revealing Venus Interior from Coronae Analysis

scientific article published on 27 March 2022

Rheology and Heat Transport in Europa's Ice Shell

scientific article published on 25 November 2020

Scaling laws of convection for cooling planets in a stagnant lid regime

scholarly article

Seismic Velocities Distribution in a 3D Mantle: Implications for InSight Measurements

scientific article

Seismic Velocity Variations in a 3D Martian Mantle: Implications for the InSight Measurements

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Seismic detection of a deep mantle discontinuity within Mars by InSight

scholarly article

Seismic detection of the martian core

scientific article published on 23 July 2021

Sheet-like and plume-like thermal flow in a spherical convection experiment performed under microgravity

scientific article published on 29 October 2013

Stagnant-lid convection with diffusion and dislocation creep rheology: Influence of a non-evolving grain size

scholarly article

Surface waves and crustal structure on Mars

scientific article published on 28 October 2022

Synergies between Venus & Exoplanetary Observations

journal article

Synergies between Venus & Exoplanetary Observations

scientific article published on 8 October 2022

Temperature and composition of the mantle sources of martian basalts as constrained by MAGMARS, a new melting model for FeO-rich peridotite

scientific article published on 24 December 2021

The Global Seismic Moment Rate of Mars After Event S1222a

scientific article published on 6 April 2023

The Global Seismic Moment Rate of Mars after Event S1222a

scientific article published on 5 December 2022

The Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3) for the InSight Mission

scientific article published in August 2018

The InSight Mars Lander and Its Effect on the Subsurface Thermal Environment

article by Matthew A. Siegler et al published 9 February 2017 in Space Science Reviews

The Long-Term Evolution of the Atmosphere of Venus: Processes and Feedback Mechanisms

scientific article published in October 2022

The Temperature and Composition of the Mantle Sources of Martian Basalts

scientific article published on 8 June 2023

The Thermal State and Interior Structure of Mars

scientific article published on 28 November 2018

The Thermo‐Chemical Evolution of Mars With a Strongly Stratified Mantle

scientific article published in April 2021

The habitability of a stagnant-lid Earth

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The influence of interior structure and thermal state on impact melt generation in terrestrial planets

scientific article published on 2 May 2024

The next frontier for planetary and human exploration

scientific article published on 14 January 2019

The present-day interior of Venus as predicted by global geodynamical models and constrained by observations

scientific article published on 3 July 2024

The present-day surface heat flux of the Moon from global geodynamic and crustal thickness models

scientific article published on 3 July 2024

The temperature and composition of the mantle sources of Martian basalts

scientific article published on 26 March 2023

The two parameterisations of the Andrade rheological model in planetary science: a comparative study

scientific article published on 23 September 2022

Thermal evolution and Urey ratio of Mars

scholarly article by A.-C. Plesa et al published May 2015 in Journal of geophysical research. Planets

Thermal evolution and interior structure of Venus

scientific article published on 15 May 2023

Thermal evolution of terrestrial planets with 2D and 3D geometries

scientific article published on 4 March 2021

Thermal state of the Martian interior at present day as constrained by elastic lithosphere thickness estimates and recent volcanic activity

scientific article published on 27 November 2024

Thermo-Chemical Convection in Planetary Mantles

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Thermo-Chemical Mantle Convection Simulations Using Gaia

Thermochemical evolution of Mercury's interior

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Thickness and structure of the martian crust from InSight seismic data

scientific article published on 23 July 2021

Tidal Constraints on the Martian Interior

Towards interior-atmosphere coupling on Venus: CO2 and H2O

scientific article published on 26 March 2022

Unveiling Magma Reservoir Depths Beneath Venusian Coronae: Insights from the Parga Region

scientific article published on 3 July 2024

Variations of Heat Flux and Elastic Thickness of Mercury From 3‐D Thermal Evolution Modeling

scientific article published on 29 October 2024

Variations of Heat Flux and Elastic Thickness of Mercury derived from Thermal Evolution Modeling

scientific article published on 3 July 2024

Variations of Heat Flux and Elastic Thickness of Mercury derived from Thermal Evolution Modeling

scientific article published on 9 March 2024

Variations of Heat Flux and Elastic Thickness of Mercury from 3-D Thermal Evolution Modeling

scientific article published on 15 October 2024

Water in the Martian interior-The geodynamical perspective

scholarly article