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Tenuous Surface Layer on the Moon: Evidence Derived from Radar Observations.

T Hagfors, R A Brockelman, H H Danforth

    Science (New York, N.Y.)
    |November 26, 1965
    PubMed
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    Radar observations of the moon reveal differences in backscattering based on wave polarization. These findings support a layered lunar surface model with a tenuous top layer over a denser one.

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