Venus: Topography Revealed by Radar Data

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Feb 1972

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1972sci...175..514c&link_type=abstract

Science, Volume 175, Issue 4021, pp. 514-516

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Surface height variations over the entire equatorial region on Venus have been estimated from extended series of measurements of interplanetary radar echo delays. Most notable is a mountainous section of about 3-kilometer peak height located at a longitude of 100 degrees (International Astronomical Union coordinate system). The eastern edge has an average inclination of about 0.5 degrees, which is unusually steep for a large-scale slope on Venus. The resolution of the radar measurements along the surface of Venus varied between about 200 and 400 kilometers with a repeatability in altitude determination generally between 200 and 500 meters. The mean equatorial radius was found to be 6050.0 ± 0.5 kilometers.

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