false-color image produced from radar images taken by the Magellan probe Ve·nus (vē′nəs) n. 1.Roman MythologyThe goddess of love and beauty. 2.The second planet from the sun, having an average radius of 6,052 kilometers (3,761 miles), a mass 0.82 times that of Earth, and a...
NASA's Magellan spacecraft was launched on May 4th, 1989, with a mission to map the surface of Venus with radar. In the course of its four and a half year mission, Magellan provided the most high-resolution images to date of the planet and was able to map 98% of the surface and 95...
NASA's Magellan took this image of Maat Mons, the highest volcano on Venus. The planet has the most volcanoes in the solar system. Credit: NASA / JPL A research professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks looked through 30 years of old NASA Magellan mission images to find evidence of...
Venus - Exploration, Atmosphere, Surface: The greatest advances in the study of Venus were achieved through the use of robotic spacecraft. The first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of another planet and return data was the U.S. Mariner 2 in its flyby of
NASA/JPL/USGS Like Earth, our Twin planet Venus’s origins began around 4.5 billion years ago, in a gyrating cloud of dust, rock and rubble. In many ways, the two planets are similar—in size, density and gravity. Both have iron-rich cores, mantles filled with churning molten rock, an...
Venus' Once Molten SurfaceNASA August 1, 2010 If you could look across Venus with radar eyes, what might you see? This computer reconstruction of the surface of Venus was created from data from the Magellan spacecraft. Magellan orbited Venus and used radar to map our neighboring planet's su...
Venus is the second planet from the Sun, which orbits around the Sun every 224 Earth days. It has the longest rotational period (243 days) of any planet in the Solar System, and rotates in the opposite direction to most other planets. It does not have an
NASA’s Venus-orbiting Magellan spacecraft was able to lift the veil from the face of Venus and produced spectacular high resolution images of the planet’s surface. Colors used in this computer generated picture of Magellan radar data are based on color images from the surface of Venus transmi...
which mapped Venus with a powerfulimaging radar.Magellanproduced images with a resolution of 100 meters, much better than that of previous missions, yielding our first detailed look at the surface of our sister planet (Figure 1). (TheMagellanspacecraft returned more data to Earth than all previo...
Robert C. Cowen, writer of the Christian Science Monitor