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Venus surface rendered with Blender with color base map and heightmap from NASA and the USGS Licensing I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:
The mapping of Venus refers to the process and results of human description of the geological features of the planet Venus. It involves surface radar images of Venus, construction of geological maps , and the identification of stratigraphic units , volumes of rock with a similar age.
The surface of Venus is dominated by geologic features that include volcanoes, large impact craters, and aeolian erosion and sedimentation landforms. Venus has a topography reflecting its single, strong crustal plate, with a unimodal elevation distribution (over 90% of the surface lies within an elevation of -1.0 and 2.5 km) [1] that preserves geologic structures for long periods of time.
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The surface of Venus is comparatively flat. When 93% of the topography was mapped by Pioneer Venus Orbiter, scientists found that the total distance from the lowest point to the highest point on the entire surface was about 13 kilometres (8.1 mi), about the same as the vertical distance between the Earth's ocean floor and the higher summits of the Himalayas.
Longitudes on Venus are measured eastward from its prime meridian. The original prime meridian passed through the radar-bright spot at the center of the oval feature Eve, located south of Alpha Regio. [1] After the Venera missions were completed, the prime meridian was redefined to pass through the central peak in the crater Ariadne. [2] [3
The very first visible-light images of Venus' surface from space have been captured by NASA's Parker Solar Probe, and it could help researchers piece together the mysteries of the distant planet.
Venus map NASA JPL Magellan-Venera-Pioneer.jpg Module:Location map/data/Venus is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Venus . The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.