Magellan: Principal Venus science findings

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Landforms, Magellan Project (Nasa), Planetary Craters, Planetary Geology, Tectonics, Topography, Venus (Planet), Venus Surface, Volcanoes, Deposition, Erosion, Gravitation, Radar Imagery, Remote Sensing, Satellite Altimetry

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This is a brief summary of the science findings of the Magellan mission, principally based on data from the radar system. Future plans for Magellan include acquisition of high resolution gravity data from a nearly circular orbit and atmospheric drag and occultation experiments. The Magellan science results represent the combined effort of more than 100 Magellan investigators and their students and colleagues. More extensive discussions can be found in the August and October, 1992 issues of the Journal of Geophysical Research, Planets. The Magellan mission's scientific objectives were to provide a global characterization of landforms and tectonic features; to distinguish and understand impact processes; to define and explain erosion, deposition, and chemical processes; and to model the interior density distribution. All but the last objective, which requires new global gravity data, have been accomplished, or we have acquired the data that are required to accomplish them.

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