0:13 - Idunn Mons
0:53 - Global View of the surface of Venus
1:11 - Volcanic "pancake" domes
1:32 - Southern hemisphere from a distance of 35000 km
1:51 - Dickinson impact crater
2:11 - Global terrain of Venus
3:15 - Volcano with comet-like tail
3:32 - Nightside
3:55 - Venera 13 image of the surface of Venus
4:17 - Dayside
4:33 - Aphrodite terra
4:53 - Venus transit in 2012

-1- IDUNN MONS: (46 S, 214.5 E). Radar data (in brown) from Magellan has been draped on top of the topographic data. Bright areas are rough or have steep slopes. Dark areas are smooth. The coloured overlay shows the heat patterns derived from surface brightness data collected by VENUS EXPRESS. Idunn Mons has a diameter of about 200 kilometres (120 miles).

-2- GLOBAL VIEW OF THE SURFACE OF VENUS: This global view of the surface of Venus is centred at 180 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. A bright elongated region in the centre is Aphrodite Terra.

-3- VOLCANIC "PANCAKE" DOMES: Magellan radar image of volcanic "pancake" domes in Tinatin Planitia, Venus. These domes appear to have been formed by the extrusion of high viscosity lava. The largest dome is 62 km in diameter.

-4- SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE FROM A DISTANCE OF 35000 KM: This false-colour image was taken in ultraviolet light by VENUS EXPRESS on 23 July 2007. It shows a view of the southern hemisphere from equator (right) to the pole (left) from a distance of 35000 km from the surface of the planet.

-5- DICKINSON IMPACT CRATER: This Magellan image is centred at 74.6 degrees north latitude and 177.3 east longitude, in the northeaster Atalanta Region of Venus. The image is approximately 185 kilometres (115 miles) wide at the base and shows Dickinson, an impact crater 69 kilometres (43 miles) in diameter. The crater is complex, characterized by a partial central ring and a floor flooded by radar-dark and radar-bright materials.

-6- GLOBAL TERRAIN OF VENUS: This animation is a brief tour of the global terrain of the planet Venus as revealed by radar on-board the Magellan spacecraft. The height of the terrain is color-coded, with blues and greens representing low altitudes and reds representing high altitudes.

-7- VOLCANO WITH COMET-LIKE TAIL: The comet-like tail trending northeast from this volcanic edifice is a relatively radar-bright deposit. The volcano, whose basal diameter is 5 kilometres (about 3 miles), is a local topographic high that has slowed down northeast trending winds enough to cause deposition of this material. The streak is 35 kilometres long and 10 kilometres (about 6 miles) wide.

-8- VENUS NIGHTSIDE: A synthesized false colour image of Venus taken by AKATSUKI in infrared. The slight colour variations on the night-side are believed to indicate the difference in size of cloud particles.

-9- VENERA 13 IMAGES OF THE SURFACE OF VENUS: Surface photographs from the Soviet Venera 13 spacecraft. The Venera 13 lander touched down on 3 March 1982. The lander functioned for at least 127 minutes (the planned design life was 32 minutes).

-10- VENUS DAYSIDE: A synthesized false colour image of Venus taken by AKATSUKI in ultraviolet and infrared. In the ultraviolet there is an absorption band of sulphur dioxide (SO2). It can be said that the amount of SO2 is relatively low in the bluish areas in this image.

-11- APHRODITE TERRA: Aphrodite Terra is named after the goddess of love. It is about the same size as Africa. The surface appears buckled and fractured which suggests large compressive forces. There are also numerous extensive lava flows. The imagery was collected by the Magellan mission, which used radar to "see" the surface of Venus beneath its heavy atmosphere.

-12- VENUS TRANSIT IN 2012: Over a six-hour period on June 5-6 2012, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) collected images in many wavelengths of one of the rarest predictable solar events: the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. These transits occur in pairs eight years apart that are separated from each other by 105 or 121 years.

Credits: NASA/ JPL-Caltech / ESA / ASI / CNES / Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio / JAXA/PLANET-C Project Team / USSR Academy of Sciences/Brown University

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