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Orbital bistatic radar observations of asteroid Vesta by the Dawn mission

We present orbital bistatic radar observations of a small-body, acquired during occultation by the Dawn spacecraft at asteroid Vesta. The radar forward-scattering properties of different reflection sites are used to assess the textural properties of Vesta’s surface at centimeter-to-decimeter scales...

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Autores principales: Palmer, Elizabeth M., Heggy, Essam, Kofman, Wlodek
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5595829/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28900127
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00434-6