[Baps] Seminar announcement: Tommy Thompson (JPL) talk at BU Jul 24, 3:45 pm

[Thomson, Bradley J]

Dear planetary folks,

Tommy Thompson from JPL will be giving an informal seminar about lunar radar next Wednesday, Jul 24 at 3:45 pm in CAS 453. Come to learn more about radar observations of our closest celestial neighbor.

Cheers,
Brad

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Title: Assessing Lunar Radar Echoes as a Mixture of Specular and Diffuse Components

Speaker: Dr. Tommy Thompson
Principal Scientist
Caltech / NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Tommy Thompson, one of the pioneers of radar astronomy, will discuss the ramifications of assuming that lunar radar echoes can be modeled assuming just 2 components – Quasi-specular scattering from large areas pointed perpendicular to the radar's line-of-sight and diffuse scattering for wavelength sized rocks on the surface or buried in the upper most lunar subsurface.  Some of the quasi-specular scatted is attributed to layers of buried crater ejecta seen in the Apollo core tubes. This has relevance to predicting scattering differences seen in the recent Mini-RF orbital radar observations carried out on the Chandrayaan-1 and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Spacecraft.

Wednesday, July 24 2013
Boston University
College of Arts and Sciences Building, Room 453
685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA
Refreshments at 3:30 pm, talk at 3:45 pm
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 Dr. Bradley Thomson
 Senior Research Scientist
 Boston University Center for Remote Sensing
 725 Commonwealth Ave., Rm 433
 Boston, MA 02215-1401

 email: bjt at bu.edu
 phone: 617.353.5148
 fax: 617.353.3200
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