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Pictures of the planet Venus
Venus Home
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A computer generated three-dimensional perspective of Maat Mons on Venus. There are lava flows in the foreground.
Maat Mons - in the top center of the photo - stands about 5 kilometers high over the surrounding surface of Venus.
A 3-D view of the surface of Venus. This view was created by combining radar and altimeter data from the Magellan spacecraft. On the bottom right of the view is a 600 by 450 kilometers corona created by magma from volcanoes on Venus.
A 3-D view of two novae on Yavine Corona. Coronae are areas where lava from within Venus pushes a round bump/bulge on the surface of the planet.
The Yavine Corona covers the whole picture.
In the center of this photo is a nova - a circular hill with fractures/cracks in the shape of a star. The second (high) nova is in the top right-hand corner of this photograph.
Picture of a landslide on the planet Venus by the Magellan spacecraft.
The collapse of the walls of this volcanic crater caused two large landslides of material from within the crater.
The volcano is 17 kilometers in diameter and nearly 2 kilometers high.
A picture by the Magellan spacecraft of a large impact crater in the Eistla Region on Venus.
The crater is about 6 kilometers in diameter.
Six bright rays of ejecta come from this crater. The fact that the ejecta on the left is longer than the ejecta on the right means that the impact came from the right-hand side (on the photo).
A 3D representation of the Golubkina Crater on Venus. Golubkina is 34 kilometers in diameter.
This is a typical example of an impact crater - many impact craters on the Earth, its Moons and the planet Mars look the same: terraced inner walls and a central peak.
The terraced walls of impact craters form when an impact crater collapses. The central peaks of these impact craters form because the crater floor rebounces after the meteorite impact.
Some questions about these pictures of the planet Venus
Lets see what you have learned from these pictures ...
- What are coronae?
- What are nova?
- What is ejecta?
- Where do you find central peaks?
All images are courtesy NASA/JPL except where stated otherwise.
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This page was last updated on: October 1, 2002
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