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Venus, view of the northern hemisphere based on radar data from the Magellan spacecraft.
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Observe a volcanic peak on Venus captured by Magellan spacecraft
Volcanic peak on Venus captured by Magellan spacecraft.
Video: NASA/JPL
Observe the 2012 transit of Venus across the sun captured as seen by the Solar Dynamics Observatory
Images collected by the Solar Dynamics Observatory in many wavelengths of the six-hour...
Video: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO
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Venus
Venus photographed in ultraviolet light by the Pioneer Venus Orbiter (Pioneer 12)...
NASA/JPL
colour-coded global image of the topography of Venus
Colour-coded global image of the topography of Venus below its obscuring clouds,...
NASA/JPL/California Institute of Technology
profile of Venus's atmosphere
Profile of Venus's middle and lower atmospheres as derived from measurements made...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
flat rock slabs and soil on the surface of Venus
Flat rock slabs and soil on the surface of Venus in a panoramic 170° image taken...
Courtesy of C.M. Pieters through the Brown/Vernadsky Institute to Institute Agreement and the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, and C.M. Pieters et al. “The Color of the Surface of Venus,” Science, vol. 234, p. 1382, Dec. 12, 1986,copyright © 1986 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science
global topographic map of Venus
Global topographic map of Venus derived from laser altimetry data gathered by the...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Venusian arachnoid
Venusian arachnoid, a surface feature of unknown origin.
Magellan Team, JPL, NASA
Maxwell Montes
Maxwell Montes on Venus.
NASA
Akna Montes
Akna Montes, a mountain belt on Venus bordering Lakshmi Planum in Ishtar Terra, in...
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
rift valley on Venus
Oblique, vertically exaggerated view of a rift valley on Venus, generated by computer...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00311)
coronae in the Sedna Planitia lowlands
Oblique view of coronae in the Sedna Planitia lowlands of Venus, generated by computer...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00307)
Aine Corona
Aine Corona and other volcanic features in a region on Venus to the south of Aphrodite...
NASA/JPL
highlands of tessera terrain
Highlands of tessera terrain rising from the plains region known as Leda Planitia...
NASA/JPL
Sif Mons
Sif Mons, a shield volcano on Venus, in a low-angle computer-generated view based...
NASA/JPL
Venus: Idunn Mons
Idunn Mons, a volcano on Venus, seen in an image created from data obtained by NASA's...
NASA/JPL/ESA
Sacajawea Patera
Sacajawea Patera, an elongated caldera in the western Ishtar Terra highland of Venus,...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00485)
volcanic pancake domes
Volcanic pancake domes in the elevated region Eistla Regio on Venus, in a radar image...
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Alpha Regio, Venus
Merged pancake domes on the eastern edge of the Alpha Regio highland area of Venus,...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00246)
impact craters in Lavinia Planitia
A trio of impact craters in Lavinia Planitia, a lowland plain in the southern hemisphere...
NASA/JPL
Adivar Crater
Adivar Crater on Venus, in a radar image from the Magellan spacecraft. About 30 km...
NASA/JPL
Venus crossing the face of the Sun
Venus crossing the face of the Sun, in a telescopic image recorded on a photographic...
U.S. Naval Observatory Library
Pioneer Venus Orbiter
Pioneer Venus Orbiter.
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U.S. Mariner 5
U.S. Mariner 5 spacecraft being prepared for its launch to Venus on June 14, 1967....
NASA
descent capsule of the Venera 4
Descent capsule of the Soviet Venera 4 spacecraft prior to its launch to Venus on...
Tass/Sovfoto
deep-level clouds on the nightside of Venus
Deep-level clouds on the nightside of Venus, mapped in false colour from an image...
NASA/JPL
Magellan spacecraft and attached Inertial Upper Stage rocket
Magellan spacecraft and attached Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) rocket being released...
NASA/JPL
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Photo montage showing three consecutive days of close conjunction between the Moon...
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Venus, photograph showing the planet's dense cloud cover, taken by Mariner 10.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/National Aeronautics and Space Administration
solar system to scale
The eight planets of the solar system and Pluto, in a montage of images scaled to...
NASA/Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
solar system
The planets (in comparative size) in order of distance from the Sun.
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An enhanced photograph of Venus, obtained in February 1979 in ultraviolet light by...
Courtesy of L.D. Travis and W.B. Rossow
Venus
This global view of the surface of Venus is centred at 180° E longitude. Magellan...
NASA/JPL
An impact crater on the Venusian surface. This Magellan image displays characteristic...
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Irregular impact crater north of Lavinia Planitia in Venus's southern hemisphere...
NASA/JPL
four impact craters
Four impact craters of the same size (30 km [20 miles] in diameter) imaged by spacecraft...
(Venus and Moon) Robert Herrick/Lunar and Planetary Institute; (Mars) Calvin Hamilton/Los Alamos National Laboratory; (Ganymede) Paul Schenk/Lunar and Planetary Institute
False-colour perspective view of Latona Corona and Dali Chasma. The corona is the...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00268)
Canali, or lava channels, in Venus's Lo Shen Valles region, north of the...
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Venus
Scientists use radar to pierce the thick clouds shrouding Venus and “see” the surface...
NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00271)
Perspective view of Riley Crater, a 25-km (15.5-mile)-wide crater on Venus. The crater's...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00266)
Lava flows extending from the shield volcano Sapas Mons on Venus, in an oblique computer-generated...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00107)
False-colour perspective view of coronae (rendered here in red and yellow) on Sedna...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00313)
False-colour perspective view of Sedna Planitia, one of the plains of Venus south...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00306)
False-colour image of a shield volcano on Aphrodite Terra, north of Ovda Regio. The...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00308)
Flat rock slabs and soil on the surface of Venus in a panoramic 170° image taken...
Courtesy of C.M. Pieters through the Brown/Vernadsky Institute to Institute Agreement and the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, and C.M. Pieters et al. “The Color of the Surface of Venus,” Science, vol. 234, p. 1382, Dec. 12, 1986,copyright © 1986 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Venus: Venera 13 lander
The surface of Venus, east of Phoebe Regio, in an image captured by the Venera 13...
Soviet Planetary Exploration Program/NSSD/NASA
Northeast-trending wind streak on the lee side of a small volcano on Venus, in a...
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Artist's conception of the Akatsuki space probe orbiting Venus.
NASA
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Venus, view of the northern hemisphere based on radar data from the Magellan spacecraft.
NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00271)

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Planets of Our Solar System
There are 8 planets in our solar system. The 4 smaller ones are rocky. The bigger...
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