File:Venus globe.jpg

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current	14:46, 4 January 2017		4,096 × 4,096 (1.6 MB)	127.0.0.1 (talk)	This global view of the surface of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Venus" title="Venus">Venus</a> is centered at 180 degrees east longitude. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magellan_probe" class="extiw" title="en:Magellan probe">Magellan</a> 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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Venus_project" class="extiw" title="en:Pioneer Venus project">Pioneer Venus Orbiter</a> 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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_13" class="extiw" title="en:Venera 13">Venera 13</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_14" class="extiw" title="en:Venera 14">14</a> spacecraft. The image was produced by the Solar System Visualization project and the Magellan science team at the JPL Multimission Image Processing Laboratory and is a single frame from a video released at the October 29, 1991, JPL news conference. It is important to note that Venus is completely shrouded in clouds. A bright elongated region in the center is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphrodite_Terra" class="extiw" title="en:Aphrodite Terra">Aphrodite Terra</a>.

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