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PIA00478: Venus - Global View Centered at 180 degrees
 Target Name:  Venus
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Magellan
 Spacecraft:  Magellan
 Instrument:  Imaging Radar
 Product Size:  10240 x 10240 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  JPL
 Producer ID:  P39635
 Addition Date:  1996-11-26
 Primary Data Set:  Magellan MIDRs
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA00478.tif (44.9 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA00478.jpg (8.515 MB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This global view of the surface of Venus is centered at 180 degrees east longitude. Magellan synthetic aperture radar mosaics from the first cycle of Magellan mapping, and a 5 degree latitude-longitude grid, 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. The image was produced by the Solar System Visualization project and the Magellan Science team at the JPL Multimission Image Processing Laboratory.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
1996-11-26