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Caption: Figure 8.
Peary crater (78 km diameter; 88.6°N, 33°E) in the lunar north pole region as viewed by L-band DFSAR in Yamaguchi 4 component decomposition images. The terrain-corrected DFSAR decomposition images are mosaicked and overlain on an LROC WAC North Pole mosaic. The white dashed polygon outlines the approximate extent of the Peary crater rim, and the polygons in magenta are the regions of permanent shadow as obtained from LRO's LOLA instrument. The two “anomalous” craters and a “normal” fresh crater (marked with numbers “1”, “2,” and “fresh crater,” respectively) analyzed in this study are shown with arrows in yellow and are also separately shown in Figures 10 and 11. The color wheel highlights the colors for each scattering regime (red: even bounce; blue: single (odd) bounce; green: volume scattering). Note that the vertical lines and small patches in red near crater rims and edges of DFSAR image strips that appear here are artifacts as described in Section 4 and are not to be confused with the dominant scattering mechanism from those regions.
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