Bilateral symmetry across Aphrodite Terra

Details Bilateral symmetry across Aphrodite Terra Bilateral symmetry across Aphrodite Terra

May 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987pggp.rept..452c&link_type=abstract

In NASA, WAshington, Reports of Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program, 1986 p 452-454 (SEE N87-23341 16-91)

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Geological Faults, Highlands, Remote Sensing, Venus (Planet), Venus Surface, Morphology, Pioneer Venus 1 Spacecraft, Resolution, Synthetic Aperture Radar, Tectonics, Topography

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There are three main highland areas on Venus: Beta Regio, Ishtar Terra and Aphrodite Terra. The latter is least known and the least mapped, yet existing analyses of Aphrodite Terra based on available Pioneer-Venus orbiter data suggest that it may be the site of extensive rifting. Some of the highest resolution (30 km) PV data (SAR) included most of the western half of Aphrodite Terra. Recent analysis of the SAR data together with Arecibo range-doppler topographic profiling (10 X 100 km horizontal and 10 m vertical resolution) across parts of Aphrodite, further characterized the nature of possible tectonic processes in the equatorial highlands. The existence of distinct topographic and radar morphologic linear discontinuities across the nearly east-west strike of Aphrodite Terra is indicated. Another prominent set of linear features is distinctly parallel to and orthogonal to the ground tracks of the PV spacecraft and are not included because of the possibility that they are artifacts. Study of the northwest trending cross-strike discontinuities (CSD's) and the nature of topographic and morphologic features along their strike suggest the presence of bilateral topographic and morphologic symmetry about the long axis of Aphrodite Terra.

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