Orbital bistatic radar observations of asteroid Vesta by the Dawn mission

The Dawn spacecraft has provided orbital bistatic radar observations of a small body in the solar system. Here, the authors present results from Vesta suggesting that smooth terrains with heightened hydrogen concentrations indicate that ground-ice presence potentially helped shape Vesta’s current su...

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Main Authors: Elizabeth M. Palmer, Essam Heggy, Wlodek Kofman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00434-6