Radar mapping of Mercury - Full-disk images and polar anomalies

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Oct 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992sci...258..640h&link_type=abstract

Science (ISSN 0036-8075), vol. 258, no. 5082, p. 640-643.

Physics

85

Ice Formation, Mercury (Planet), Polar Regions, Radar Imagery, Radar Maps, Doppler Radar, Very Large Array (Vla)

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A random-code technique has been used at Arecibo to obtain delay-Doppler radar images of the full disk of Mercury. Anomalously bright features were found at the north and south poles. The north polar feature is oblong (4 by 8 deg) and offset from the pole. The smaller south polar feature is mostly confined to the floor of the crater Chao Meng-Fu. The polar locations and radar properties of these features indicate that they may be produced by volume scattering in ice. The images also reveal a variety of more subdued reflectivity features ranging in size from hundreds to thousands of kilometers; some of these appear to have an impact origin.

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