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OCR: MAGELLAN VEnUS RADAR MAPPING MISSION Key Features Shuttle/Inertial upper stage launch May 1989 Entered Venus orbit August 10, 1990 243-dat mapping cycle (one Venus rotation) Radar imaging, altimetry and radiometry 1989 1990 1991 1992 Obiectives Gravity- -field Measurement Launch 5/04/89 Study geological history of Venus -Surface structure and processes Interplanetary Transit -Density distribution and interi ior 15 month dynamics Venus Orbit Insertion Small-scale surface features 8/10/90 In-Orbit 36 days Checkout 600 Obtain meter global radar imaging resolution at 250 to Radar Mapping Study global topography with 5/15/91 vertical accuracy of 30 meters SION altimetr radiometr Objectives fiela interior