Check out the following websites:

[38.04] High-Resolution Radar Imaging of Mercury's North Pole with the
upgraded Arecibo Radar
http://www.aas.org/publications/baas/v31n4/dps99/197.htm

MERCURY: SODIUM ATMOSPHERIC ENHANCEMENTS, RADAR BRIGHT SPOTS,
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rhill/planatmos/mercspots.html

MERCURY
http://www.planetary.brown.edu/tepswg/mercury/mercury.html

In summary, radar mapping of Mercury showed small polar ice caps,
several large craters, and a possible shield volcano. I will try to
get more information in a few hours.

Jason Perry
volcanopele@...

----- Original Message -----
From: "jacques noel" <mercuryclub@...>
To: <planetmercurysociety@...>
Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 1:41 AM
Subject: [planetmercurysociety] Radar Work done on Mercury's surface
some years ago


> Hi All!
>
> Does anyone remember if there was radar bounced off of the surface
of
> Mercury years ago? If you do, do you have any idea where the
> results can be found and who did it?
>
> It popped into my mind today, an artifact of the past. Am I right?
>
> Note: Does anyone live in an area where the skies are usually clear
> in the morning or evening at least half of the days of the year? If
> someone does, I think I can direct them, if they would like, to
> observe Mercury and report back to us. I can give you good tips on
> finding the planet and how to best observe and/or photograph it. If
> you can find Mercury with binoculars, but have no telescope, I might
> be able to loan you one, if you are willing to try to take pictures.
>
> Observing Mercury is not easy. But, very much worth while.I live in
> the Pacific NorthWest near British Columbia and it is very hard to
> get a clear morning or evening except on rare occasion in the
Winter.
> We have the rain forest you know! And the rain and clouds to go with
> it.
>
> Take care.
>
> -Jacques Noel
>