Mercury - Full-disk radar images and the detection and stability of ice at the North Pole

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Aug 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993jgr....9815003b&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 98, no. E8, p. 15,003-15,023.

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Ice, Mercury Surface, Polar Regions, Radar Imagery, Very Large Array (Vla), Deep Space, Radar Antennas, Superhigh Frequencies

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The first full-disk radar images of Mercury are discussed. About 77 percent of the surface was imaged at resolutions as good as 150 km. The North Pole was visible at the time of the observations, and the feature with the highest same sense (SS) circular reflectivity in the images is near the nominal polar position. The peak SS reflectivity of this feature is 7.9 percent and the circular polarization ratio through much of it is over one. The diameter of the feature is estimated to be less than about 350 km. The signal strength and polarization characteristics suggest the presence of very clean ices deposited in a relatively short period. The reflectivity of the north polar feature is slightly depressed compared to absolute reflectivities of other ice bodies and regions in the solar system. This may be due to a layer of dust or soil covering the ice. Other prominent features in the unphotographed hemisphere correpond to positions where atmospheric sodium enhancements have been measured from earth. These sites may be large basins similar to the Caloris basin.

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