Goldstone solar system radar
Abstract
Caltech/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) radar astronomers made use of the Very Large Array (VLA) at Socorro, NM, during February 1990, to receive radio echoes from the planet Venus. The transmitter was the 70 meter antenna at the Goldstone complex northwest of Barstow, CA. These observations contain new information about the roughness of Venus at cm to decimeter scales and are complementary to information being obtained by the Magellan spacecraft. Asteroid observations are also discussed.
- Publication:
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Reports of Planetary Astronomy, 1991
- Pub Date:
- October 1991
- Bibcode:
- 1991plas.rept..163J
- Keywords:
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- Magellan Spacecraft (Nasa);
- Radar Astronomy;
- Radio Echoes;
- Solar System;
- Venus (Planet);
- Venus Surface;
- Very Large Array (Vla);
- Surface Roughness;
- Transmitters;
- Lunar and Planetary Exploration