PIA00460: Venus - Venera 8 Landing Site in Navka Region

Target Name: Venus Is a satellite of: Sol (our sun) Mission: Magellan Spacecraft: Magellan Instrument: Imaging Radar Product Size: 8192 samples x 7168 lines Produced By: JPL Producer ID: P36909 Addition Date: 1996-09-26 Primary Data Set: Magellan MIDRs Full-Res TIFF: PIA00460.tif (45.16 MB) Full-Res JPEG: PIA00460.jpg (17.72 MB)

Original Caption Released with Image: This image is a mosaic of 24 orbits of the Navka region of Venus. The image is centered at about 10 degrees south latitude and 335 degrees east longitude. The image is about 400 km (240 miles) across. 'Behepa 8' marks the approximate landing site of the Soviet Venera 8 lander, which took measurements at the surface of Venus in 1972. The Venera 8 lander measured granitic or continental-like materials at the landing site. Magellan data reveals the landing site to lie in a region of plains cut by tectonic ridges and troughs. Volcanic domes and flows are seen throughout the region. Studying the regional setting of the Venera landing sites is important in linking information about surface composition to surface morphology seen in radar images. Resolution of the Magellan data is about 120 meters (400 feet). Image Credit: NASA/JPL