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PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PASADENA, CALIF. 91109. TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011
PHOTO CAPTION MAGELLAN
P-39225 MGN 81
Oct. 29, 1991
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 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. Simulated color is used to enhance small-scale structure.
The simulated hues are based on color images recorded by the
Soviet Venera 13 and 14 spacecraft. The image was produced by
the Solar System Visualization project and the Magellan Science
team at the JPL Multimission Image Processing Laboratory, and is
a single frame from a video released at the October 29, 1991, JPL
news conference.