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Mini-Rf S- and X-Band Bistatic Observations of South Polar Craters on the Moon 49th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 2018 (LPI Contrib. No. 2083) 2007.pdf MINI-RF S- AND X-BAND BISTATIC OBSERVATIONS OF SOUTH POLAR CRATERS ON THE MOON. G.W. Patterson1, P. Prem1, A.M. Stickle1, J.T.S. Cahill1 and the Mini-RF team, 1Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD ([email protected]). Introduction: Mini-RF aboard NASA’s Lunar on the surface of the Moon. The transmitted pulses are Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a hybrid dual- 100 to 400 µs in length. The Mini-RF receiver operates polarized synthetic aperture radar (SAR). Its receiver continuously and separately receives the horizontal and operates in concert with transmitters at either the vertical polarization components of the signal Arecibo Observatory (AO) or the Goldstone deep backscattered from the lunar surface. The resolution of space communications complex 34 meter antenna the data is ~100 m in range and ~2.5 m in azimuth but DSS-13 to collect S- and X-band bistatic radar data of can vary from observation to observation, as a function the Moon, respectively [1]. Bistatic radar data provide of the viewing geometry. For analysis, the data are a means to probe the near subsurface for the presence averaged in azimuth to provide a spatial resolution of of water ice, which exhibits a strong response in the 100 m. This yields an ~40-look average for each sam- form of a Coherent Backscatter Opposition Effect pled location in an observation and an average 1/N1/2 (CBOE). This effect has been observed in radar data uncertainty in Circular Polarization Ratio (CPR) meas- for the icy surfaces of the Galilean satellites, the polar urements of ±16%. CPR information is commonly caps of Mars, polar craters on Mercury, and terrestrial used in analyses of planetary radar data [1-5], and is a ice sheets in Greenland. Here we present S- and X- representation of surface roughness at the wavelength band bistatic radar observations for the floors of the scale of the radar. Surfaces that are smoother at the south-polar craters Cabeus and Amundsen and discuss wavelength scale will have lower CPR values and sur- their potential for harboring water ice. faces that are rougher will have higher CPR values. Background: Radar observations of planetary sur- High CPR values can also serve as an indicator of the faces provide important information on the structure presence of water ice [14]. (i.e., roughness) and dielectric properties of surface Observations: Mini-RF observations of south po- and buried materials [2-5]. These data can be acquired lar crater floors currently include Cabeus (84.9°S, using a monostatic architecture, where a single antenna 35.5°W; 98 km dia.) and Amundsen (84.5°S, 82.8°E; serves as the signal transmitter and receiver, or they 103 km dia.). Previous work using Mini-RF and Mini- can be acquired using a bistatic architecture, where a SAR (Chandrayaan-1) monostatic data of Cabeus signal is transmitted from one location and received at found no evidence for radar-detectible deposits of wa- another. The former provides information on the scat- ter ice in the top meter(s) of the surface [15]. However, tering properties of a target surface at 0° bistatic an initial Mini-RF bistatic observation of the crater (phase) angle. The latter provides the same information showed scattering characteristics for its floor that dif- but over a variety of phase angles. fered from the surrounding terrain [16]. Cabeus was Laboratory data and analog experiments at optical targeted at S-Band on 4 subsequent occasions but a wavelengths have shown that the scattering properties ground issue at AO limited the collection of data for of lunar materials can be sensitive to variations in one of the observations to regions outside the crater phase angle [6-8]. This sensitivity manifests as an op- floor. The purpose of those additional observations position effect and likely involves contributions from was to provide additional data on the scattering charac- shadow hiding at low angles and coherent backscatter teristics of its floor materials and to characterize and near 0°. Analog experiments and theoretical work have compare the CPR response of those materials to sur- shown that the scattering properties of water ice are rounding highland terrain and radar-facing slopes in also sensitive to variations in phase angle, with an op- the vicinity of the crater. The floor of Cabeus crater position effect that it is tied primarily to coherent was also targeted at X-band on 3 occasions in the pre- backscatter [9-11]. Differences in the character of the vious year and the floor of Amundsen crater was tar- opposition response of these materials offer an oppor- geted once. The purpose of these observations is to tunity to differentiate between them, an issue that has constrain the depth to and thickness of materials with been problematic for radar studies of the Moon that use similar scattering characteristics. a monostatic architecture [12,13]. Results: Mini-RF S-band observations of the floor Method: Collecting bistatic radar data involves of Cabeus cover bistatic angles of 0.5° to 8.6° for inci- AO and/or DSS-13 illuminating the lunar surface at S- dence angles ranging from 82.4° to 86.6° (Fig. 1). CPR band (12.6 cm) or X-band (4.2 cm) wavelength, re- measurements for the floor of the crater, as a function spectively, with a circularly polarized, chirped signal of bistatic angle, show a clear opposition surge; some- and tracking the Mini-RF antenna boresight intercept 49th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 2018 (LPI Contrib. No. 2083) 2007.pdf beus are higher than that of surrounding highlands and nearby radar-facing slopes for bistatic angles of 0.5° to 1.8°. Mini-RF data for bistatic angles < 0.5° were not acquired during the bistatic campaign. However, Mini- RF monostatic data (i.e., bistatic angle of 0°) of the crater floor were acquired at an incidence angle of 48° [14] and ground-based CPR measurements at a bistatic angle of 0.37° and large (> 80°) incidence angles have been made [e.g., 17]. Elevated CPRs were not ob- served in either case. Mini-RF X-band observations of the floor of Ca- beus cover equivalent incidence angles but a smaller range of bistatic angles than are currently sampled at S-band. Based on these observations, there is no indi- cation of an opposition response. Data for the floor of Amundsen crater similarly does not indicate an opposi- tion response. The floors of both craters have measured CPRs at small bistatic angles that are within ~10% of that observed for the floor of Casatus crater at high bistatic angles. All three crater floors have average CPRs that are ~15% to 20% less than that of highland materials. These data currently paint a very different picture to what is observed at S-band radar wave- lengths. Summary: S-band radar scattering characteristics for the floor of Cabeus crater are unique with respect to other materials observed on the Moon and are con- sistent with the presence of water ice. This would ne- Fig.1. (above) Portion of backscatter data for S-band cessitate such deposits be multiple wavelengths in bistatic observation 2013-346, overlain on LOLA thickness. In contrast, initial results at X-band do not topographic information (scale shown in km of radius). suggest the same scattering characteristics for the floor Dashed circle represents approximate location of of Cabeus crater and do not show a response for the crater rim and solid oval represents approximate area floor of Amundsen crater. This could indicate that, if sampled in all bistatic observations of the crater floor. water ice is present in Cabeus crater floor materials, it (below) Plot of mean CPR versus bistatic angle for is buried beneath ~0.5 m of regolith that does not in- Cabeus floor materials sampled in 5 bistatic observa- clude radar-detectible deposits of water ice. tions targeting Cabeus at incidence angles ranging References: [1] Patterson et al., 2017, Icarus, 283, from 82.4° to 86.6° (bold line), highland materials 2-19; [2] Campbell et al. (2010), Icarus, 208, 565-573; observed at incidence angles ranging from 64° to [3] Raney et al. (2012), JGR, 117, E00H21; [4] Carter 81.5°, (upper solid line), and radar-facing slopes ob- et al. (2012), JGR, 117, E00H09; [5] Campbell (2012), served at incidence angles ranging from 76.5° to 82° JGR, 117, E06008; [6] Hapke et al. (2012), JGR, 117, (lower solid line). E00H15, doi:10.1029/2011JE003916; [7] Nelson et al. (2000), Icarus, 147, 545-558; [8] Piatek et al. (2004), thing not observed for the floors of nearby, similar- Icarus, 171, 531-545. [9] Hapke and Blewett (1991), sized craters that were sampled at S-band wavelengths Nature, 352, 46-47; [10] Mishchenko (1992), Astro- (e.g., Casatus, Klaproth, Blancanus, and Newton A and phys. and Space Sci., 194, 327-333; [11] Mishchenko G) [1]. The opposition peak of Cabeus floor materials (1992), Earth, Moon, and Planets, 58, 127-144; [12] has a width of ~2° and features a ~30% increase in Spudis P.D. et al. (2010) GRL [13] Spudis et al. CPR. The bistatic observations of the region surround- (2013), JGR 118, 1-14; [14] Black et al. (2001), ing Cabeus indicate that mean CPR values for the por- Icarus, 151, 167-180. [15] Neish et al., 2011, JGR tion of its floor that was imaged by Mini-RF are less (Planets), 116, E01005, doi:10.1029/2010JE003647; than that of the surrounding highlands for bistatic an- [16] Patterson et al., 2013, 44th LPSC, #2380; [17] gles > ~1.8° but similar to that of nearby radar-facing Campbell et al., 2006, Nature 443, 835-837.
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