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The Clementine Bistatic Radar Experiment

Overview of attention for article published in Science, November 1996
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Title
The Clementine Bistatic Radar Experiment
Published in
Science, November 1996
DOI 10.1126/science.274.5292.1495
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Authors

S. Nozette, C. L. Lichtenberg, P. Spudis, R. Bonner, W. Ort, E. Malaret, M. Robinson, E. M. Shoemaker

Abstract

During the Clementine 1 mission, a bistatic radar experiment measured the magnitude and polarization of the radar echo versus bistatic angle, beta, for selected lunar areas. Observations of the lunar south pole yield a same-sense polarization enhancement around beta = 0. Analysis shows that the observed enhancement is localized to the permanently shadowed regions of the lunar south pole. Radar observations of periodically solar-illuminated lunar surfaces, including the north pole, yielded no such enhancement. A probable explanation for these differences is the presence of low-loss volume scatterers, such as water ice, in the permanently shadowed region at the south pole.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 5 4%
United States 2 2%
Brazil 1 <1%
Austria 1 <1%
Russia 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 102 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 29 26%
Researcher 24 21%
Student > Master 10 9%
Student > Bachelor 7 6%
Other 5 4%
Other 18 16%
Unknown 20 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Earth and Planetary Sciences 36 32%
Physics and Astronomy 24 21%
Engineering 15 13%
Computer Science 7 6%
Chemistry 3 3%
Other 7 6%
Unknown 21 19%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 75. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 January 2024.
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#572,960
of 25,425,223 outputs
Outputs from Science
#13,198
of 82,970 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#354
of 92,782 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#6
of 244 outputs
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