Venus NASA image from Magellan spacecraft. This global view of the surface of Venus is centered at 0 degrees east longitude. Magellan synthetic aperture radar mosaics from the first cycle of Magellan mapping are mapped onto a computer- simulated globe to create this image. Data gaps are filled with Pioneer-Venus Orbiter data, or a constant mid-range value. Simulated color is used to enhance small-scale structure. The simulated hues are based on color images recorded by the Soviet Venera 13 and 14 spacecraft. The image was produced by the Solar System Visualization project and the Magellan Science team at the JPL Multimission Image Processing Laboratory, and was released on October 29, 1991.

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Venus Constructed from NASA image using Pioneer-Venus data. This is a radar map of Venus based on data from Pioneer-Venus Orbiter data. The false colors indicate altitude with red being the highest altitude, yellow and green representing successively lower altitudes, and the blue represents lowland plains. Some of the prominent geographic features are labled. Two major highland areas Ishtar Terra and Aphrodite Terra are like continents, with the regions labled "Regia" being smaller highland areas. Much of the surface is in the "Planitia" or plains regions.

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