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Keywords: Magellan Project, Venus, surface
![Когда-то расплавленная поверхность Венеры](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2013/06/23/0001289446/venus_magellan_960.preview.jpg)
23.06.2013
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 surface between 1990 and 1994.
![Венера проходит перед Солнцем: смотрите прямую трансляцию](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/06/05/0001265432/latest_APOD_HMIC.preview.jpg)
5.06.2012
Today Venus moves in front of the Sun. One way to follow this rare event is to actively reload the above live image of the Sun during the right time interval and look for an unusual circular dark dot. The smaller sprawling dark areas are sunspots. The circular dot is the planet Venus.
![Прохождение Венеры – 2012](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/06/07/0001265550/VenusTransit2012_HetlageCrop.preview.jpg)
7.06.2012
Occurring in pairs separated by over a hundred years, there have now been only eight transits of Venus since the invention of the telescope in 1608. The next will be in December of 2117.
![Венера на краю](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/06/09/0001265675/657111main_1-SOT_120606_TOV.preview.jpg)
9.06.2012
As its June 6 2012 transit begins Earth's sister planet crosses the edge of the Sun in this stunning view from the Hinode spacecraft. The timing of limb crossings during the rare transits was used historically to triangulate the distance to Venus and determine a value for the Earth-Sun distance called the astronomical unit.
![Прохождение Венеры над Балтийским морем](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/06/13/0001265874/venustransit_hackmann_960.preview.jpg)
13.06.2012
Waiting years and traveling kilometers -- all to get a shot like this. And even with all of this planning, a good bit of luck was helpful. As the Sun rose over the Baltic...
![Соединения на рассвете](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/07/01/0001266684/integration_ceres_c900.preview.jpg)
30.06.2012
Now shining in eastern skies at dawn, bright planets Venus and Jupiter join the Pleiades star cluster in this sea and sky scape, recorded earlier this week near Buenos Aires, Argentina. Venus dominates the scene that includes bright star Aldebaran just below and to the right.
![Зодиакальный свет](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/02/24/0001256890/JackFusco_ZodiacalLightPortrait900.preview.jpg)
23.02.2012
Venus and Jupiter are this month's two brightest planets. Shortly after sunset on February 20, they dominate the sky above the western horizon and this snowy landscape. In clear and transparent skies over Cherry Springs State Park, Pennsylvania, USA, they are also seen immersed in Zodiacal light.
![Разноцветная Венера](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/03/02/0001260190/Venus2-5-2012uvbgrirWalker.preview.jpg)
1.03.2012
Brilliant Venus now shines in western skies at twilight. Seen as the prominent evening star, the planet is a tantalizing celestial beacon even for casual skygazers. Venus can offer less than satisfying telescopic views though. The planet is shrouded in reflective clouds that appear bright but featureless at the eyepiece.
![Красочный транзит Венеры](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/10/17/0001254211/venustransit_cortner_900.preview.jpg)
16.10.2011
The rare transit of Venus across the face of the Sun in 2004 was one of the better-photographed events in sky history. Both scientific and artistic images flooded in from the areas that could see the transit: Europe and much of Asia, Africa, and North America.
![Необычный овал Венеры](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2012/02/13/0001255948/venusoval_zubenel_960.preview.jpg)
13.02.2012
Why would Venus appear oval? Venus has been seen countless times from the surface of the Earth, and every time the Earth's atmosphere has dispersed its light to some degree. When...
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