MSSS Venus Research

Magellan Radar Mosaic of the Aphrodite Terra region of Venus.

Magellan radar mosaic of the Aphrodite Terra region of Venus. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Magellan Project

MSSS President, Michael C. Malin, was a Participating Scientist on the Magellan mission to Venus in the early 1990s.

 
Launch: 4 May 1989 Venus Orbit Insertion: 10 August 1990 Last Contact: 12 October 1994

 

Paper: Mass Movements on Venus (self-archived PDF (2.8MB); high-quality self-archived PDF (16.9MB))

 

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