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File:Radar Image of Tycho Crater from Jean-Luc Margot's PhD work.png

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English: Mercator projection of a rectified radar image of Tycho Crater on the Moon.

Horizontal axis is east longitude and vertical axis is latitude. Pixel intensity is radar backscatter (in dB). The image spans 142.5 km x 142.5 km. Each pixel spans 150 m x 150 m. Transmitter: Goldstone Solar System Radar, DSS-14. Receiver: DSS-13.

Wavelength: 3.5 cm. Polarization: circular, opposite sense to that transmitted.
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I transmitted a waveform from Goldstone's DSS-14 antenna and received the echoes at DSS-13

Previously published: [1]
  1. ↑ Margot, J.L. et al. (2000). "Digital elevation models of the Moon from Earth-based radar interferometry". IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 38 (2): 1122–1133. DOI:10.1109/36.841991.
Author JeanLucMargot

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Radar image of Tycho Crater

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