The Magellan mission will be the next NASA mission to Venus. This paper describes the mission as it is currently planned, showing how the design of the science payload, the spacecraft, and the mission satisfies the science objectives and requirements as well as other programmatic constraints. The Magellan mission is dedicated to obtaining SAR images of at least 70 percent of the surface of Venus at a resolution of 1 km per line-pair, or better, which is comparable to the coverage and resolution of the Mars Mariner 9 mission. Other investigations will study the geophysical characteristics of the planet using altimetric data and gravity field measurements, and measurements to determine global surface emissivity.


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    Title :

    The Magellan mission to Venus


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Aerospace century XXI: Space missions and policy ; 1986 ; Boulder, CO, United States


    Publication date :

    1987-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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