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Rotating Globe of Venus Target Name: Venus Produced by: NASA Date Released: March 1993 |
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The document "Venus" contains additional information related to this animation.
| Name | Type | Width x Height x Frames | Size |
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| avenus1.fli | FLI | 200 x 200 x 72 | 1M |
This is an animated rotating globe of Venus based on surface elevation data returned by the Magellan spacecraft. The animation consists of 72 frames of 200x200 pixels every 5 degrees around the planet's equator. The surface elevation is color coded so that the highest elevations appear bright, while the lowest appear dark. The colors approximate colors actually seen on the surface by Soviet Venera landers. The frames were created by re-projecting the sinusoidal browse image of surface topography from the GxDR CD-ROM of Magellan data from its first 243-day mapping cycle at the planet. Some data from Magellan's second cycle are included in this browse image to partly fill gap in cycle 1 coverage caused by superior conjunction, or when Venus was behind the sun from Earth's point of view. The dark areas represent regions not yet mapped at the time the CD-ROM was made.
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