Pioneer Venus radar results - Altimetry and surface properties

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Dec 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980jgr....85.8261p&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 85, Dec. 30, 1980, p. 8261-8270.

Physics

62

Venus, Radar Methods, Altimetry, Surface, Topography, Pvo Mission, Spacecraft Observations, Equipment, Imagery, Features, Morphology, Terrain, Orad Instrument, Geology

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A topographic map of 93% of the Venus globe was depicted by the radar altimeter of the Pioneer Venus orbiter with a resolution better than 150 km. Extremes in relief expressed as a center-of-mass-to-surface radius extend from 6049 to 6062 km; the elevated terrain is dominated by a massive equatorial area equal in size to South America. The distribution of average meter-scale surface slopes is determined for the same regions in the 1 to 10 deg range; elevated areas have higher slopes, so that most features observed in the earth-based images are also evident in the vertical-incidence spacecraft measurements.

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