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PIA00210: Venus - Golubkina Crater
This image of the Venusian crater Golubkina, a 340 kilometer (20.4 miles) diameter impact crater located at about 60.5 degrees north latitude, 287.2 degrees east longitude, contains NASA's Magellan data mosaiced with a Soviet Venera radar image.
 Target Name:  Venus
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Magellan 
 Spacecraft:  Magellan
 Instrument:  Imaging Radar 
 Product Size:  1024 x 1250 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Producer ID:  P36548  
 Addition Date:  1996-02-05 
 Primary Data Set:  Magellan MIDRs 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA00210.tif (970.5 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA00210.jpg (204.3 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This image of the Venusian crater Golubkina, a 340 kilometer (20.4 miles) diameter impact crater located at about 60.5 degrees north latitude, 287.2 degrees east longitude, contains Magellan data mosaiced with a Soviet Venera 15/16 radar image of the same feature. The Magellan part of the image (right) reveals details of the geology of the crater such as the central peak, the inner terraced walls, and the extremely smooth floor of the crater. The smoothness of the floor may be due to pounding of volcanic lava flows in the crater floor. The rough, blocky morphology of the crater ejecta and the sharp terraced crater wall suggest that this feature is relatively young. The Soviet data have a resolution of 102 km (0.601.2 miles); the Magellan data have a resolution of about 120 meters (400 feet).

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
1996-02-05