Clementine Bi-Static Radar Experiment: Preliminary Results

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Mar 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996lpi....27..967n&link_type=abstract

Lunar and Planetary Science, volume 27, page 967

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Bismuth: Static, Clementine, Ice, Radar, South Pole

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The Clementine mission included a series of ad hoc bistatic radar experiments to search for ice in the lunar polar regions. Water ice and/or other cold-trapped volatiles are expected to exhibit backscatter enhancement and a high ratio of same sense (transmitted) to opposite sense polarization in the reflected radar signal, as the bi-static angle Beta approaches 0. This is due to volume scattering possibly combined with an associated Coherent Backscatter Opposition Effect (CBOE). Bi-static radar observations were made on seven Clementine orbits, four at the south pole (orbits 234,235,236,237) and three at the north pole (orbits 299,300,301). The magnitude and circular polarization ratio of the radar echo as a function of Beta was measured for selected lunar target areas.

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