Magellan project

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Dec 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992lpico.789..106s&link_type=abstract

In Lunar and Planetary Inst., Papers Presented to the International Colloquium on Venus p 106-107 (SEE N93-14288 04-91)

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Data Acquisition, Magellan Project (Nasa), Magellan Spacecraft (Nasa), Polar Regions, Radar Data, Radar Imagery, Synthetic Aperture Radar, Venus (Planet), Equatorial Regions, High Resolution, Radio Altimeters, Radiometers, Venus Surface

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The Magellan spacecraft was placed into orbit around Venus on 10 Aug. 1990 and started radar data acquisition on 15 Sep. 1990. Since then, Magellan has completed mapping over 2.75 rotations of the planet (as of mid-July 1992). Synthetic aperture radar (SAR), altimetry, and radiometry observations have covered 84 percent of the surface during the first mission cycle from mid-Sep. 1990 through mid-May 1991. Operations in the second mission cycle from mid-May 1991 through mid-Jan. 1992 emphasized filling the larger gaps (the south polar region and a superior conjunction) from that first cycle. Planned observations in the fourth mission cycle from mid-Sep. 1992 through mid-May 1993 will emphasize high-resolution gravity observations of the equatorial regions of Venus.

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