Mars: Seasonally variable radar reflectivity

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Nov 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985jgrs...90...74r&link_type=abstract

In Lunar and Planetary Inst. 16th Lunar and Planetary Sci. Conf. p 74-77 (SEE N85-26548 15-91)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Annual Variations, Mars Surface, Radar Astronomy, Reflectance, Water, Dust, Ice, Melting, Seasons, Space Observations (From Earth)

Scientific paper

The 1971/1973 Mars data set acquired by the Goldstone Solar System Radar was analyzed. It was established that the seasonal variations in radar reflectivity thought to occur in only one locality on the planet (the Solis Lacus radar anomaly) occur, in fact, over the entire subequatorial belt observed by the Goldstone radar. Since liquid water appears to be the most likely cause of the reflectivity excursions, a permanent, year-round presence of subsurface water (frozen or thawed) in the Martian tropics can be inferred.

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