The Clementine Bistatic Radar Experiment

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Nov 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996sci...274.1495n&link_type=abstract

Science, Volume 274, Issue 5292, pp. 1495-1498

Physics

121

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During the Clementine 1 mission, a bistatic radar experiment measured the magnitude and polarization of the radar echo versus bistatic angle, β, for selected lunar areas. Observations of the lunar south pole yield a same-sense polarization enhancement around β = 0. Analysis shows that the observed enhancement is localized to the permanently shadowed regions of the lunar south pole. Radar observations of periodically solar-illuminated lunar surfaces, including the north pole, yielded no such enhancement. A probable explanation for these differences is the presence of low-loss volume scatterers, such as water ice, in the permanently shadowed region at the south pole.

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