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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-07-18 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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The northern hemisphere is displayed in this global view of the surface of Venus as seen by NASA's Magellan spacecraft.
PIA00271:
Venus - Computer Simulated Global View of the Northern Hemisphere
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Imaging Radar
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Ushas Mons, a volcano in the southern hemisphere of Venus is shown in this radar image from NASA's Magellan spacecraft. The volcano is marked by numerous bright lava flows and a set of north-south trending fractures.
PIA00272:
Venus - Simulated Color of Ushas Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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This perspective view of Venus, generated by computer from NASA's Magellan data and color-coded with emissivity, shows part of Sedna Planitia and illustrates a common phenomenon of the lowland plains of Venus.
PIA00306:
Magellan's Perspective View of Sedna Planitia, 45° N, 350° E
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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This perspective view of Venus, generated by computer from NASA's Magellan data and color-coded with emissivity, shows part of the lowland plains in Sedna Planitia.
PIA00307:
Magellan's Perspective View of Sedna Planitia, 45° N, 11° E
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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This perspective view of Venus, generated by computer from NASA's Magellan data and color-coded with emissivity, shows part of the lowlands to the north of Ovda Regio. The prominent topographic feature is a shield volcano.
PIA00308:
Magellan's Perspective View of Ovda Regio, 15° N, 77° E
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.113 MB)     JPEG (469.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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This perspective view of Venus, generated by computer from NASA's Magellan data and color-coded with emissivity, shows the boundary between the lowland plains and characteristic Venusian highland terrain in Ovda Regio.
PIA00309:
Magellan's Perspective View of Ovda Regio, 0° N, 77° E
Full Resolution:     TIFF (5.144 MB)     JPEG (581.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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This perspective view of Venus, generated by computer from NASA's Magellan data and color-coded with emissivity, shows the boundary between the lowland plains and characteristic Venusian highland terrain in Ovda Regio.
PIA00310:
Magellan's Perspective View of Ovda Regio, 0° N, 129° E
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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This perspective view of Venus, generated by computer from NASA's Magellan data and color-coded with emissivity, shows the boundary between the lowland plains and characteristic Venusian highland terrain in Ovda Region.
PIA00311:
Magellan's Perspective View of Ovda Regio, 0° S, 129° E
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.63 MB)     JPEG (343.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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This perspective view of Venus, generated by computer from NASA's Magellan data and color-coded with emissivity, shows the impact crater Markham, named after the English aviator Beryl Markham.
PIA00312:
Magellan's View of Crater Markham, 0° N, 163° E
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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This perspective view of Venus, generated by computer from NASA's Magellan data and color-coded with emissivity, shows part of the lowland plains in Sedna Planitia. Circular depressions with associated fracture patterns, called 'coronae.'
PIA00313:
Sedna Planitia (Left Member of a Synthetic Stereo Pair)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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This perspective view of Venus, generated by computer from NASA's Magellan data and color-coded with emissivity, shows part of the lowland plains in Sedna Planitia.
PIA00314:
Sedna Planitia (Right Member of a Synthetic Stereo Pair)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.571 MB)     JPEG (265.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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This perspective view of Venus, generated by computer from NASA's Magellan data and color-coded with emissivity, is a look westward across the Fortuna Tessera toward the slopes of Maxwell Montes.
PIA00315:
Looking Westward Across the Fortuna Tessera (Left Member of a Synthetic Stereo Pair)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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This perspective view of Venus, generated by computer from NASA's Magellan data and color-coded with emissivity, is a look westward across the Fortuna Tessera toward the slopes of Maxwell Montes.
PIA00316:
Looking Westward Across the Fortuna Tessera (Right Member of a Synthetic Stereo Pair)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.614 MB)     JPEG (283.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-26 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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This image from NASA's Magellan spacecraft is a mosaic of 24 orbits of the Navka region of Venus. Volcanic domes and flows are seen throughout the region.
PIA00460:
Venus - Venera 8 Landing Site in Navka Region
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-26 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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This mosaic of NASA's Magellan data in the Fortuna region of Venus. Shown here are Bahet Corona on the left, Onatah Corona on the right. Coronae are thought to form due to the upwelling of hot material from deep in the interior of Venus.
PIA00461:
Venus - Mosaic of Bahet and Onatah Coronae
Full Resolution:     TIFF (35.51 MB)     JPEG (15.1 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-26 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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NASA's Magellan spacecraft imaged this multiple-floored, irregular impact crater at latitude 16.4 degrees north, longitude 352.1 degrees east, during orbits 481 and 482 on 27 September 1990.
PIA00462:
Venus - Multiple-Floored, Irregular Impact Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-26 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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During orbits 404 through 414 on 19-20 September 1990, NASA's Magellan spacecraft imaged a peak-ring crater.
PIA00463:
Venus - Barton Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-26 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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This image covers part of a deep valley on Venus called Devana Chasma. The image is a composite of the first two orbits recorded by NASA's Magellan spacecraft in August 1990 superimposed on Pioneer Venus topography.
PIA00464:
Venus - Magellan Data Superimposed on Pioneer Venus Data - Devana Chasma and Phoebe Regio
Full Resolution:     TIFF (10.45 MB)     JPEG (2.287 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-26 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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These radar images show an identical area on Venus as imaged by the NASA's Magellan spacecraft in 1991 (left) and the U.S.S.R. Venera 15/16 spacecraft in the early 1980's (right).
PIA00465:
Venus - Comparison of Venera and Magellan Resolutions
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-26 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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This image from NASA's Magellan spacecraft shows an impact crater in the central Eistla Region of the equatorial highlands of Venus. The crater is slightly irregular in platform and its walls appear terraced.
PIA00466:
Venus - Large Impact Crater in the Eistla Region
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-10-23 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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This image from NASA's Magellan spacecraft is in the Lavinia Region of Venus. Volcanic vent areas in this part of the plains west of Alpha Regio consist of domes and pits up to nearly 3 kilometers across.
PIA00467:
Venus - Lavinia Region
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-10-23 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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In September 1990, Magellan imaged this impact crater that is representative of Venusian craters that are of the proper diameter (about 15 kilometers) to be 'transitional' in their morphology between 'complex' and irregular' craters.
PIA00468:
Venus - 'Transitional' Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-10-23 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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This image from NASA's Magellan spacecraft covers region near Hestia Rupes on the northwestern corner of Aphrodite Terra. This complex network exhibits tributary-like branches similar to those observed in river systems on Earth.
PIA00469:
Venus - Complex Network of Narrow Fractures Near Hestia Rupes Region
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.342 MB)     JPEG (475.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-10-23 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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This crater in the Navka region of Venus was mapped by NASA's Magellan on Sept. 26-27, 1990 during orbits 459 and 460. It has the terraced walls, flat radar-dark floor, and central peak that are characteristic of craters classified as complex.
PIA00470:
Venus - Complex Crater 'Buck' in Navka Region
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-10-23 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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This is a full resolution mosaic from NASA's Magellan spacecraft showing a series of complex lava flows which emerge from the northern flank of Sif Mons, a large volcano just to the south.
PIA00471:
Venus - Complex Lava Flows at Sif Mons
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.88 MB)     JPEG (1.538 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-11-20 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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This full-resolution image from NASA's Magellan spacecraft shows an impact crater named Jeanne. The distinctive triangular shape of the ejecta indicates that the impacting body probably hit obliquely, traveling from southwest to northeast.
PIA00472:
Venus - Impact Crater 'Jeanne
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-11-20 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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This image from NASA's Magellan spacecraft is of Sachs Patera on Venus. Defined as a sag-caldera, Sachs is an elliptical depression 130 meters (81 feet) in depth, spanning 40 kilometers (25 miles) in width along its longest axis.
PIA00473:
Venus - Sag Caldera 'Sachs Patera
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-11-20 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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This image from NASA's Magellan spacecraft is of the eastern Navka Region of Venus. The crater, which is approximately 8 kilometers (5 miles) in diameter, displays a butterfly symmetry pattern.
PIA00474:
Venus - Impact Crater in Eastern Navka Region
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-11-20 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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This image from NASA's Magellan spacecraft is of Crater Stephania in northern Sedna Planitia on Venus. It is one of the smaller craters on Venus.
PIA00475:
Venus - Crater 'Stefania' in N. Sedna Planitia
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-11-22 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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This image from NASA's Magellan spacecraft shows an irregular crater of approximately 14- kilometer (8.7-mile) mean diameter. The crater is actually a cluster of four separate craters that are in rim contact.
PIA00476:
Venus - Multi-Floor Irregular Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-11-26 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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This full resolution mosaiced image from NASA's Magellan spacecraft is located in the Lakshmi region of Venus at 47 degrees north latitude and 334 east longitude.
PIA00477:
Venus - Possible Remnants of a Meteoroid in Lakshmi Region
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.833 MB)     JPEG (1.037 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-11-26 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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This synthetic aperture radar mosaic from NASA's Magellan spacecraft is a global view of the surface of Venus.
PIA00478:
Venus - Global View Centered at 180 degrees
Full Resolution:     TIFF (44.9 MB)     JPEG (8.515 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-11-26 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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This image from NASA's Magellan spacecraft is from the northeastern Atalanta Region of Venus. The image shows the complex impact crater, Dickinson, characterized by a partial central ring and a floor flooded by radar-dark and radar-bright materials.
PIA00479:
Venus - Complex Crater 'Dickinson' in NE Atalanta Region
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-11-26 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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Crater Isabella is seen in this radar image from NASA's Magellan spacecraft. The second largest impact crater on Venus, the crater is named in honor of the 15th Century queen of Spain, Isabella of Castile.
PIA00480:
Venus - Impact Crater 'Isabella
Full Resolution:     TIFF (24.35 MB)     JPEG (7.659 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-12-02 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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A portion of Alpha Regio is displayed in this three-dimensional perspective view of the surface of Venus from NASA's Magellan spacecraft. In 1963, Alpha Regio was the first feature on Venus to be identified from Earth-based radar.
PIA00481:
Venus - Three-Dimensional Perspective View of Alpha Region
Full Resolution:     TIFF (18.02 MB)     JPEG (4.56 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-11-07 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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This image from NASA's Magellan spacecraft shows an area of dark volcanic lava flows overlying the brighter surrounding plains which are thought to have been formed from older flows.
PIA00482:
Venus - Dark Volcanic Lava Flows
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-11-14 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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This image from NASA's Magellan spacecraft is from the southern portion of Navka. In the center of this image are two bright deposits running north to south.
PIA00483:
Venus - Outflow Channel in South Navka
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-11-14 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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This image from NASA's Magellan spacecraft reveals Sacajawea Patera, a large, elongate caldera located in Western Ishtar Terra on the smooth plateau of Lakshmi Planum.
PIA00485:
Venus - A Large Elongated Caldera 'Sacajawea Patera
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-11-14 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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This radar image mosaic of Venus from NASA's Magellan spacecraft, is in the Lada region. The mosaic shows a system of east-trending radar-bright and dark lava flows encountering and breaching a north-trending ridge belt (left of center).
PIA00486:
Venus - System of Lava Flows and Ridge Belt
Full Resolution:     TIFF (6.288 MB)     JPEG (2.243 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-11-14 Venus Magellan
Imaging Radar
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This image from NASA's Magellan spacecraft is from the eastern Ovda region of Venus. The image shows some small volcanic domes on the flank of the volcano Maat.
PIA00487:
Venus - Volcanic Domes on Flank of Volcanic Maat in East Ovda Region
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.139 MB)     JPEG (398.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Venus Galileo
Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This image is a false color version of a near infrared map of lower level clouds on the night side of Venus, obtained by the Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer aboard the Galileo spacecraft as it approached the planet Feb. 10, 1990.
PIA00112:
Venus Nightside through the Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
Full Resolution:     TIFF (140.5 kB)     JPEG (111.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Venus Galileo
Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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This false-color image is a near-infrared map of lower-level clouds on the night side of Venus, obtained by NASA's Galileo spacecraft as it approached the planet's night side on Feb. 10, 1990.
PIA00124:
Infrared Image of Low Clouds on Venus
Full Resolution:     TIFF (391.4 kB)     JPEG (42.72 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-02-08 Venus Galileo
Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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These images are two versions of a near-infrared map of lower-level clouds on the night side of Venus, obtained by the Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer aboard NASA's Galileo spacecraft as it approached the planet February 10, 1990.
PIA00221:
Venus - Lower-level Clouds As Seen By NIMS
Full Resolution:     TIFF (81.58 kB)     JPEG (15.78 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-02-08 Venus Galileo
Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
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These images are two versions of a near-infrared map of lower-level clouds on the night side of Venus, obtained by the Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer aboard NASA's Galileo spacecraft as it approached the planet February 10, 1990.
PIA00222:
Venus - Lower-level Nightside Clouds As Seen By NIMS
Full Resolution:     TIFF (159.5 kB)     JPEG (25.82 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-05 Venus MESSENGER
MDIS - Wide Angle
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After acquiring hundreds of high-resolution images during close approach to Venus, NASA's MESSENGER turned its wide-angle camera back to the planet and acquired a departure sequence.
PIA10125:
MESSENGER Bids Farewell to Venus Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-11-24 Venus MESSENGER
MDIS - Wide Angle
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On Oct. 24, 2006, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft came within 2,990 kilometers (1,860 miles) of Venus during its second planetary encounter.
PIA10123:
Approaching Venus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-05 Venus MESSENGER
MDIS - Wide Angle
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NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft snapped a series of images as it approached Venus on June 5. The planet is enshrouded by a global layer of clouds that obscures its surface to the MESSENGER Dual Imaging System (MDIS) cameras.
PIA10124:
Approaching Venus Image #2
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.05 MB)     JPEG (28.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-02 Venus MESSENGER
MDIS - Wide Angle
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This image from NASA's MESSENGER is one of many from the latest vulcanoid search are currently being transmitted to Earth. Vulcanoids are small rocky bodies that have been postulated to exist but not yet been detected.
PIA12443:
A View of Venus while Searching for Vulcanoids
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.05 MB)     JPEG (52.42 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2001-03-15 Venus Magellan
Arecibo Radar Data
Radar System
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The images used for the base of this globe show the northern and southern hemispheres of Venus as revealed by more than a decade of radar investigations culminating in the 1990-1994 NASA Magellan mission.
PIA03151:
Venus Hemispherical Globes
Full Resolution:     TIFF (196.7 MB)     JPEG (17.89 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2001-08-27 Venus Magellan
Arecibo Radar Data
Radar System
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The images used for the base of this globe show the northern and southern hemispheres of Venus as revealed by more than a decade of radar investigations culminating in the 1990-1994 NASA Magellan mission.
PIA03167:
Venus Hemispherical Globes (with place names)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (229.5 MB)     JPEG (26.36 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2012-06-15 Venus ACRIMSAT
ACRIM3
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Observations of the total solar irradiance made with the ACRIM3 instrument on NASA's ACRIMSAT satellite on June 5 and 6, 2012, tracked the effect of the transit of Venus, which lasted about six hours.
PIA15820:
NASA's ACRIMSAT Observes Venus Transit
Full Resolution:     TIFF (17.31 MB)     JPEG (993.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2003-06-27 Venus Mariner 2
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NASA's Mariner 2 was the world's first successful interplanetary spacecraft. Launched August 27, 1962, on an Atlas-Agena rocket, Mariner 2 passed within about 34,000 kilometers (21,000 miles) of Venus.
PIA04594:
Mariner 2 (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-06-08 Venus Mariner
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As it sped away from Venus, NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft captured this seemingly peaceful view of a planet the size of Earth, wrapped in a dense, global cloud layer.
PIA23791:
Venus from Mariner 10
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.457 MB)     JPEG (94.32 kB)
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