Is there radar evidence for liquid water on Mars?

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Apr 1984

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984pggp.rept..276r&link_type=abstract

In NASA. Washington Rept. of Planetary Geology Program, 1983 p 276-278 (SEE N84-23431 13-91)

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Mars Surface, Radar Cross Sections, Simulation, Soil Moisture, Water, Dust, Mathematical Models, Permafrost, Permittivity, Surface Properties

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The hypothesis that an extraordinary radar smoothness of a lunar target suggests that ground moisture is rest on the assumption that on the penetration-depth scale, the dielectric constant be an isotropic quantity. In other words, the planet's surface should have no vertical structure. Results of modeling exercises (based on the early lunar two-layer models) conducted to simulate the behavior of radar reflectivity, at S-band, over Solis Lacus, without manipulating the dielectric constant of the base layer (i.e., without adding moisture) are summarized. More sophisticated, explicit, rather than iterative multi-layer models involving dust, duricrust, mollisol, and permafrost are under study. It is anticipated that a paradoxical situation will be reached when each improvement in the model introduces additional ambiguities into the data interpretation.

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