Regolith Layer Thickness Mapping of the Moon by Radar and Optical Data

Icarus

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 329-338

  Shkuratov, Yurij G ^a   Bondarenko, Nataliya V ^b  

^a V N KARAZIN KHARKIV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^b A USIKOV INSTITUTE OF RADIO PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Moon; Radar; Regoliths; Surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001050091     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6545     Document Type: Article

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