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80. The moon as a scatterer of radio waves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

I. C. Browne
Affiliation:
Jodrell Bank Experimental Station, University of Manchester, England
J. V. Evans
Affiliation:
Jodrell Bank Experimental Station, University of Manchester, England

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Radio echoes from the moon at 120 Mc./s. have been obtained with a pulse length of 30 msec. and a pulse interval of 1·8 sec., using a fixed aerial directed due south. Their study has given information about the nature of the scattering function of the lunar surface.

Type
Part VI: Meteors and Planets
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1957 

References

1. Browne, I. C., Evans, J. V., Hargreaves, J. K. and Murray, W. A. S. ‘Radio Echoes from the Moon’, Proc. Phys. Soc. B, 69, 901, 1956.CrossRefGoogle Scholar