This is a 225 meter per pixel Magellan radar image mosaic of part of Venus, centered at 51 degrees south latitude, 21 degrees east longitude. The scene is approximately 200 kilometers (124 miles) east-west by 160 kilometers (99 miles) north-south. Running from west to east across the center of the image is part of a 1200 kilometer (744-mile) -long by 20-kilometer (12-mile) -wide lava channel in the Lada Terra region of Venus. Numerous streamlined structures within the channel attest to the very high temperature, very fluid lavas (resulting in both thermal and mechanical erosion) responsible for carving the channel.
