Mode decoupling during retrorefraction as an explanation for bizarre radar echoes from icy moons

Details Mode decoupling during retrorefraction as an explanation for bizarre radar echoes from icy moons Mode decoupling during retrorefraction as an explanation for bizarre radar echoes from icy moons

Feb 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986natur.319..755e&link_type=abstract

Nature (ISSN 0028-0836), vol. 319, Feb. 27, 1986, p. 755-757. NASA-supported research.

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Callisto, Coupled Modes, Decoupling, Europa, Ganymede, Icy Satellites, Radar Echoes, Polarization (Waves), Propagation Modes, Radar Cross Sections, Refraction

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Radar echoes from Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, large ice-covered moons of Jupiter, have characteristics that differ markedly from those of other natural targets. A decoupling of two characteristic modes of propagation appears to be the key to an understanding of the anomalous distribution of power among the polarized components of the echoes. Various concepts of mode decoupling and retrorefraction are combined here to explain the strength, distribution and other features of the echoes. Causes of the decoupling are proposed and their morphological implications are introduced.

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