Radio-interferometric imaging of the subsurface emissions from the planet Mercury

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Sep 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987natur.329..224b&link_type=abstract

Nature (ISSN 0028-0836), vol. 329, Sept. 17, 1987, p. 224-226. DOE-supported research.

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Mercury (Planet), Planetary Temperature, Radio Interferometers, Energy Budgets, Mercury Surface, Solar Orbits, Surface Temperature

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The VLA was used to make the first centimetre-wavelength interferometric observations that resolve Mercury's disk. The authors have mapped the distribution of total and polarized intensities from the planet's subsurface layers. They report the first detection of a hot pole along the hermean equator, which they model as black-body reradiation from preferential diurnal heating. These observations appear to rule out any internal sources of heat within Mercury. Polarized emission from the limb of the planet, which is understood in terms of the dielectric properties of the hermean surface is found.

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