NSSDCA Photo Gallery
Venus

Cloud Tops
Global Views
Surface Views
Three-dimensional Views

Cloud Tops

Image Description	Caption	NASA IDs	Image Size	Hi-Resolution TIFF?
Ultraviolet image of Venus' clouds as seen by the Pioneer Venus Orbiter (Feb. 5, 1979).			29K	Hi-res
Ultraviolet image of Venus' clouds as seen by the Pioneer Venus Orbiter (Feb. 26, 1979).			30K	Hi-res
False color image of Venus' clouds as seen by the SSI instrument on Galileo.	Caption	P-37218	9.2K	Hi-res
False color image of Venus' clouds as imaged by the NIMS instrument on Galileo.	Caption	P-37221	109K	Hi-res
False color image of Venus' clouds as imaged by the NIMS instrument on Galileo.	Caption	P-37539	37K	Hi-res
Ultraviolet image of Venus' clouds as seen by HST's Wide-Field/Planetary Camera 2.	Caption	STScI-PRC95-16, 95-HC-114	20K

Global Views

Image Description	Caption	NASA IDs	Image Size	Hi-Resolution TIFF?
Hemispheric view of Venus produced by Magellan.			49K
Five global views of Venus by Magellan.	Caption	P-45186	87K
Topographic Map of Venus from Pioneer Venus (Mercator Projection).			163K	Hi-res
Topographic Map of Venus from Magellan (Mercator Projection).			71K
Topographic Map of Venus from Magellan (Sinusoidal Projection).			148K
Microwave Emissivity Map of Venus from Magellan (Mercator Projection).			167K
Gravity Maps of Venus from Magellan (Mercator Projection).			87K

Surface Views

The following images were provided to NSSDCA by what is now the Russian Space Agency and are not necessarily in the public domain.

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	Surface photographs from the Soviet Venera 9 and 10 spacecraft. The Soviet Venera 9 and 10 spacecraft were launched on 8 and 14 June 1975, respectively, to do the unprecedented: place a lander on the surface of Venus and return images. The two spacecraft successfully landed a descent craft on 16 and 23 October 1975. These images were obtained on 22 and 25 October 1975. Venera 9 landed on a slope inclined by about 30 degrees to the horizontal whereas Venera 10 was only inclined about 8 degrees. The two spacecraft were separated by about 2100 km. Most of the rocks in the images are between about 0.3 and 1 meter.			108K
	Surface photographs from the Soviet Venera 13 spacecraft. The first of the Venera missions to include a color TV camera and the first to succeed in obtaining pictures since Venera 10, the Venera 13 lander touched down on 3 March 1982.			127K
	Color version of the left half of the Venera 13 image.			63K
	Color version of the right half of the Venera 13 image.			58K
	Surface photographs from the Soviet Venera 14 spacecraft. The Venera 14 lander became the second Venus surface probe to transmit color images after setting down on 5 May 1982.			156K

Three-dimensional Views

This section consists of three-dimensional images derived from Magellan data. The vertical scale of all of these images has been exaggerated by a factor of 22.5.

Image Description	Caption	NASA IDs	Image Size	Hi-Resolution TIFF?
Computer generated surface view of Eistla Regio (from the southwest).	Caption	P-38720	121K	Hi-res
Computer generated surface view of Eistla Regio (from the northeast).	Caption	P-38724	108K	Hi-res
Computer generated surface view of Gula Mons. For this image, we also have a special treat. Because the vertical scale on these images is so exaggerated (a factor of 22.5, remember), we thought you might want to see what one of them would look like with a more realistic vertical scale. This image of Gula Mons (8.1K) has been altered to more closely resemble the actual vertical scale.	Caption	P-38721	98K	Hi-res
Computer generated surface view of Sif Mons.	Caption	P-38722	110K	Hi-res
Computer generated surface view of a corona, tentatively named Idem-Kuva.	Caption	P-38723	108K	Hi-res
Computer generated surface view of Alpha Regio.	Caption	P-38870	108K	Hi-res
Computer generated surface view of Maat Mons.	Caption	P-39326	122K	Hi-res