MAGELLAN

Magellan

The Magellan spacecraft, also referred to as the Venus Radar Mapper, was a robotic space probe launched by NASA on May 4, 1989, to map the surface of Venus by using synthetic aperture radar and to measure the planetary gravitational field.

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