✦ LIBER ✦
Radar measurements of Mercury’s north pole at 70 cm wavelength
✍ Scribed by G.J. Black; D.B. Campbell; J.K. Harmon
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 756 KB
- Volume
- 209
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0019-1035
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✦ Synopsis
We present radar imaging of Mercury using the Arecibo Observatory's 70-cm wavelength radar system during the inferior conjunction of July 1999. At that time the sub-Earth latitude was $11°N and the highly reflective region at Mercury's north pole that was first identified in radar images at the shorter wavelengths of 3.6 cm [Slade, M.A., Butler, B.