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PIA00257: Venus - Computer Simulated Global View Centered at 0 Degrees East Longitude
This global view of the surface of Venus is centered at 0 degrees east longitude. NASA's Magellan synthetic aperture radar mosaics from the first cycle of Magellan mapping were mapped onto a computer-simulated globe to create this image.
 Target Name:  Venus
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Magellan 
 Spacecraft:  Magellan
 Instrument:  Imaging Radar 
 Product Size:  4096 x 4096 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Producer ID:  P39570  
 Addition Date:  1996-03-14 
 Primary Data Set:  Magellan MIDRs 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA00257.tif (6.884 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA00257.jpg (1.366 MB)  

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This global view of the surface of Venus is centered at 0 degrees east longitude. Magellan synthetic aperture radar mosaics from the first cycle of Magellan mapping are mapped onto a computer-simulated globe to create this image. Data gaps are filled with Pioneer Venus Orbiter data, or a constant mid-range value. Simulated color is used to enhance small-scale structure. The simulated hues are based on color images recorded by the Soviet Venera 13 and 14 spacecraft. The image was produced by the Solar System Visualization project and the Magellan Science team at the JPL Multimission Image Processing Laboratory, and is a single frame from a video released at the October 29, 1991, JPL news conference.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
1996-03-14