Physics
Scientific paper
Mar 1965
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1965natur.205.1091k&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 205, Issue 4976, pp. 1091-1092 (1965).
Physics
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Scientific paper
OBSERVATIONS of the radio emission from the planet Mercury made at the University of Michigan in 1960 and 1961 near greatest elongation gave a value of about 400° K for the mean disk temperature measured at wave-lengths near 3 cm (ref. 1). Assuming that the side of Mercury perpetually facing away from the Sun has a surface temperature of zero, the Michigan workers concluded that the sub-solar point must be approximately 1,100° K, or greater than the 600°-700° K that is expected from solar radiation. It was realized, however, that the temperature of the sub-solar point deduced in this way depends critically on the temperature of the dark hemisphere, which although not previously measured has been generally assumed to be close to zero.
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