✦ LIBER ✦
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 (