Ganymede: Radar Surface Characteristics

11 January 1980

journal article
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Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science

Vol. 207 (4427), 179-180
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.207.4427.179

Abstract

Radar observations of Ganymede, at X-band, show that the surface is unusually bright and has unusual polarization properties. A model of the surface based on large numbers of random ice facets (hence vacuum-ice interfaces) is able to account for these characteristics.

Keywords

BRIGHTNESS
SPECTRUM
MONTE CARLO TECHNIQUE
DOPPLER EFFECT
INDEX OF REFRACTION
RADAR ASTRONOMY

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