One Hundred Kilometer Terrain on Venus
Explanation:
Even the hot and cracked surface of
Venus has rolling hills.
Although never actually photographed from up-close,
images of the
Venusian surface like that shown above have been
constructed in recent years by digitally merging distant photographs with
height-sensitive radar.
Isolated
above is a 100-kilometer wide swath
inside a
volcanic region
known as Yavine Corona.
Visible in
the frame are
numerous fractures
in the surface.
Data is missing from the dark lane on the upper right.
The
surface of Venus is so hot and oppressive that
robot spacecraft
landed there
have lasted for only a few hours.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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& Michigan Tech. U.
