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The clementine bistatic radar experiment
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Malaret, E. Bonner, R. Robinson, M. Spudis, P. Ort, W. Shoemaker, E. M. Lichtenberg, C. L. Nozette, S. |
| Copyright Year | 1996 |
| Description | During the Clementine 1 mission, a bistatic radar experiment measured the magnitude and polarization of the radar echo versus bistatic angle, beta, for selected lunar areas. Observations of the lunar south pole yield a same-sense polarization enhancement around beta = 0. Analysis shows that the observed enhancement is localized to the permanently shadowed regions of the lunar south pole. Radar observations of periodically solar-illuminated lunar surfaces, including the north pole, yielded no such enhancement. A probable explanation for these differences is the presence of low-loss volume scatterers, such as water ice, in the permanently shadowed region at the south pole. |
| File Size | 406630 |
| Page Count | 6 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19970023672 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t9v16zt9b |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1996-11-29 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Communications And Radar Augmentation Water Optical Polarization Scattering Radar Tracking Multistatic Radar Ice Radar Echoes Lunar Surface Magnitude Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
