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The USGS Branch of Astrogeology [9] has produced full resolution radar maps (also known as FMAPs) of Venus from the SAR data collected from the mission, called the Magellan F-BIDRs (Full resolution Basic Image Data Records). The maps have a coverage of around 92% (combination of the 2 left-looking cycles).
The magnetosphere of Jupiter is the largest planetary magnetosphere in the Solar System, extending up to 7,000,000 kilometers (4,300,000 mi) on the dayside and almost to the orbit of Saturn on the nightside. [17] Jupiter's magnetosphere is stronger than Earth's by an order of magnitude, and its magnetic moment is approximately 18,000 times ...
The surface of Venus is comparatively flat. When 93% of the topography was mapped by Pioneer Venus Orbiter, scientists found that the total distance from the lowest point to the highest point on the entire surface was about 13 kilometres (8.1 mi), about the same as the vertical distance between the Earth's ocean floor and the higher summits of the Himalayas.
Deflected solar wind particles: Incoming solar wind particles: Van Allen radiation belt: Solar wind: Bow shock: Polar cusp es: Spanish: Particulas de viento solar reflejadas: Particulas de viento solar capturadas: Cinturones de Van Allen: Viento solar: Arco de choque: Cúspide polar eu: Basque: Islatutako eguzki-haize partikulak: Harrapatutako ...
Venus only has an induced magnetosphere formed by the Sun's magnetic field carried by the solar wind. [46] This process can be understood as the field lines wrapping around an obstacle—Venus in this case. The induced magnetosphere of Venus has a bow shock, magnetosheath, magnetopause and magnetotail with the current sheet. [46] [47]
Location of planets of the Solar System, Pluto, Ceres and Halley's Comet viewed perpendicular to the ecliptic directly above the Sun during the transit of Venus on 5-6 June 2012; planet sizes are to scale, and planet orbits are to (a different) scale. Constellations names correspond to directions to constellations along the ecliptic.
Galileo Galilei observed the phases of Venus in December 1610, an observation which supported Copernicus's then-contentious heliocentric description of the Solar System. [13] He also noted changes in the size of Venus's visible diameter when it was in different phases, suggesting that it was farther from Earth when it was full and nearer when ...