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Icy Galilean Satellites: Modeling Radar Reflectivities as a Coherent Backscatter Effect

✍ Scribed by G.J. Black; D.B. Campbell; P.D. Nicholson


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2001
Tongue
English
Weight
145 KB
Volume
151
Category
Article
ISSN
0019-1035

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✦ Synopsis


The icy moons of Jupiter, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, are efficient backscatterers of centimeter-wavelength radiation. At 3.5-cm and 13-cm wavelengths their specific radar cross sections can exceed unity (