Pictures of Venus
Venus
Images
Venus in visible light (violet filter)
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Venus in visible light
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image from Pioneer Venus
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Image from Mariner 10
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Image from Mariner 10
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UV image from HST WFPC2 (false color)
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B&W version of above
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True color global view of the surface of Venus
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Good color topography map
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False color high-res image a whole hemisphere
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New Magellan mosaic (cylindrical)
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New Magellan mosaics (5 hemispheres)
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Eastern Lakshm
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3d image of Lakshmi Planum Ishtar Terra
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Danu Mountain
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Danu MountainsĦA Lakshmi Planum
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Akna Mountains and Crater Wanda (Lakshmi Planum)
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Akna Mountain
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Craters in Transitio
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Alpha RegioĦA showing hills and craters
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7 pancake volcanoesĦA alpha region
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Ridges and Trough
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Lada RegioĦA 47 deg SĦA 25 LongĦA showing mountains and craters
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Pandora CoronaĦA Lada Terra 42.5 deg S 6 lon
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Arachnoid
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"Arachnoids" (spider like craters) at 40 Deg N by 18 degrees
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Coronas in Fortun
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Bahet CoronaĦA Onatah CoronaĦA and Fortuna Region
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Vires-Akka ChasmaĦA Denitsa Region
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Sif Mons
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Recent Volcanism
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Gula Mons and Cunitz craterĦA flat image of gulacun.gif
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Lavinia Regio
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Alcott CraterĦA Lavinia Region
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Crater FarmĦA Lavinia RegionĦA small
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Near the Lavinia RegionĦA 20 deg S latĦA 337.4 E LongĦA small
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Fault-bounded Troughs (looks like "Gumby") in the Lavinia Region
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Dark HalosĦA Lavinia regionĦA 24 deg SĦA 344 Long
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Lavinia regionĦA 50 deg SĦA 345 Long
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Ash on Lav
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Central Ovida regionĦA 1 deg s by 83 deg
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Northern Ovda regionĦA 1 deg N by 81 deg
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Wind Streak
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Sacaawea PateraĦA Western Ishtar Terra
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enlargement of saca.gif
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enlargement of upper left of saca.gif
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enlargement of upper right of saca.gif
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enlargement of center right of saca.gif
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enlargement of lower left of saca.gif
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enlargement of upper center of saca.gif
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Sacajawea Pater
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Half Crate
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"Half Crater"ĦA 23 miles in Diameter in rift between Rhea and Theia
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"The Tick"ĦA a crater which looks like a tick (insect)ĦA Eistla region
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Tick
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VolcanoĦA 3 mile diameterĦA paragon chasmaĦA 9.4S by 247.5 long
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Magellan Venus gravity data P42356Ac 5/26/93
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Corona
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Golubkina craterĦA 60.5 Deg NĦA 287.2 Long (computer generated Perspective)
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Golubkina
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Largest Crater
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Peak-ring Crater
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Large Impact Crater
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Tributary-like Branches
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Radar Bright
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Parallel Lines
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Twin Summit
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75 deg N by 332 deg strange lava flows
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70 deg N by 339 deg
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60 deg N by 344 deg
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20 deg N by 357 deg volcanoes
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20 deg S by 003 deg
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25 deg S by 357 deg
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30 deg S by 357 deg
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35 deg S by 357 deg
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40 deg S by 349 deg
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40 deg S by 356 deg
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45 deg S by 349 deg
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55 deg S by 355 deg
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60 deg S by 005 deg
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60 deg S by 355 deg
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65 deg S by 001 deg
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65 deg S by 005 deg
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65 deg S by 354 deg lava flow
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Venus
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Venus
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Venus
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Venus
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Venus
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topographic map
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False color image of Venus' clouds as seen by Galileo
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False color IR image of Venus' lower clouds as seen by Galileo
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Surface photographs from the Soviet Venera 13 spacecraft
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Another Venera 13 image
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Surface photographs from the Soviet Venera 14 spacecraft
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Surface photos from Venera 9 and 10
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Movies
Venus animation
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Venus Globe Animation
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Earth/Venus Rotation Movie
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Magellan - Mapping the planet Venus
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Flight over Western Atla Regio
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Flight over Artemis
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Flight over Alpha Regio
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Flight over Western Eistla Regio -
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Other Resources
STScI's Magellan Highlights of Venus PictureBook (3+ megabyte Hypercard stack)
ftp dir
Magellan Image Browser
html
NASA PDS Magellan Image Browser
html
Guide to Magellan Image Interpretation - JPL Publication 93-24
html
The Face of Venus (surface feature browser)
html
Galileo Venus images
Thousands of raw Magellan on NASA CD-ROMs
html
Venus Revealed Images
by David Grinspoon
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Bill Arnett
; last updated: 1997 Nov 22