Venus, more beautiful than ever

1996/02/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Astronomia

The circular representation you can see in the photo of 0ndo is that of Venus. You have the first complete cartography, elaborated in detail, fruit of years of work and collaboration.

This magnificent representation has been made at the Institute of Geology of the USA, where you can appreciate the valleys, mountains and volcanoes of Venus. To achieve this level of accuracy they have had to resort to a multitude of sources. Among them, the images emitted by the Magallaes probe, the telescope located in the Arecibo of Puerto Rico and the data obtained from the Venera space in Russia. A combination of all of them is the image attached, the most accurate in history on the planet of our galaxy.