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Stratigraphy versus artefacts in the Chang’e-4 low-frequency radar

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Fig. 1: ATA plot of the CE3 and CE4 data.
Fig. 2: Comparison of low-frequency CE3 and CE4 radar cross-sections and average spectrograms.

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Data reported in this paper are available through the Data Publishing and Information Service System of China’s Lunar Exploration Program (http://moon.bao.ac.cn).

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    Elena Pettinelli, Sebastian E. Lauro, Elisabetta Mattei & Barbara Cosciotti

  2. Istituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell’Ambiente, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Naples, Italy

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E.P and S.E.L. performed conceptual analysis and wrote the manuscript; E.M. and B.C. performed data analysis and co-wrote the manuscript; F.S. contributed to electromagnetic analysis and co-wrote the manuscript.

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Pettinelli, E., Lauro, S.E., Mattei, E. et al. Stratigraphy versus artefacts in the Chang’e-4 low-frequency radar. Nat Astron 5, 890–893 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-021-01432-x

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