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Cables and umbilicals on the Node 1/Unity and PMA3 modules

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View of a P6 Truss SAW taken during an ISS survey on STS-121 / Expedition 13 joint operations

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Magellan Orbit Artist Concept, Venus Magellan Images

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Summary

An artist's concept of the Magellan spacecraft making a radar map of Venus. Magellan mapped 98 percent of Venus' surface at a resolution of 100 to 150 meters (about the length of a football or soccer field), using synthetic aperture radar, a technique that simulates the use of a much larger radar antenna. It found that 85 percent of the surface is covered with volcanic flows and showed evidence of tectonic movement, turbulent surface winds, lava channels and pancake-shaped domes. Magellan also produced high-resolution gravity data for 95 percent of the planet and tested a new maneuvering technique called aerobraking, using atmospheric drag to adjust its orbit. The spacecraft was commanded to plunge into Venus' atmosphere in 1994 as part of a final experiment to gather atmospheric data. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA18175

NASA/JPL-Caltech

Free Space artwork and designs. Since its creation in 1958, NASA has been taking copyright-free pictures of the Earth, the Moon, the planets, and other astronomical objects inside and outside our Solar System. Under United States copyright law, works created by the U.S. federal government or its agencies, such as NASA are in public domain and cannot be copyrighted. NASA pictures are legally in the public domain.

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magellan artist concept jpl jet propulsion laboratory orbit artist concept venus percent magellan orbit artist concept surface magellan spacecraft technique radar map aperture radar radar antenna surface winds spacecraft soccer field tectonic movement lava channels gravity data pia 18175 nasa maps satellite nasa
date_range

Date

10/08/1990
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in collections

Space Art

Copyright-free public domain space artwork and designs from the world's greatest living artists.
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Location

California Institute of Technology - Jet Propulsion Laboratory ,  34.20139, -118.17341
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Source

NASA
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Link

https://images.nasa.gov/
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Copyright info

Public Domain Dedication (CC0)

label_outline Explore Aperture Radar, Surface Winds, Radar Antenna

S30-72-045 - STS-030 - Deployment of Magellan from payload bay

S30-71-043 - STS-030 - STS-30 deployment of Magellan spacecraft

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A member of the Columbia Reconstruction Project Team cleans a piece of debris from Columbia. The items at KSC number more than 82,000, weigh 84,800 pounds or 38 percent of the total dry weight of Columbia. Of those items, 78,760 have been identified, with 753 placed on the left wing grid in the RLV Hangar. KSC-03pd1547

U.S. Army National Guard Sgt. Daniel Nelson (left),

S30-72-059 - STS-030 - Deployment of Magellan from payload bay

U.S. Army National Guard Sgt. Paul Weber provides security

A view of the SPS-7 radar antenna aboard the salvage ship USS HOIST (ARS-40). On the left is one of the high pressure fire fighting nozzles carried by all rescue and salvage ships

S30-71-067 - STS-030 - STS-30 deployment of Magellan spacecraft

Hurricane/Tropical Storm - Chalmette, La. , January 15, 2011 -- Val Reiss Park is a 33-acre recreational complex that sustained an estimated 10 feet of flood water throughout the park as a result of levee breaks during Hurricane Katrina. The original facility consisted of four baseball fields, one football/soccer field, a remote control car track, a gazebo, two concession stands, a rental hall and on-site parking. FEMA has obligated almost $10. 5 million for permanent work on the facility. FEMA/Manuel Broussard

Glass Paperweight, Clichy Glasshouse - Art Institute of Chicago

Soccer field on the Malecón in Havana, Cuba

S30-72-053 - STS-030 - Deployment of Magellan from payload bay

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magellan artist concept jpl jet propulsion laboratory orbit artist concept venus percent magellan orbit artist concept surface magellan spacecraft technique radar map aperture radar radar antenna surface winds spacecraft soccer field tectonic movement lava channels gravity data pia 18175 nasa maps satellite nasa