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Magellan

(Venus Radar Mapper, VRM)
(1980s/1990s Venus probe)

The Magellan spacecraft (early name: Venus Radar Mapper or VRM) was a NASA space probe to map Venus using radar, launched in 1989 (from the Space Shuttle) and carrying out its mission from 1990 to 1994. Its principal instrument, termed RDRS, was a radar system for mapping the surface elevation and carrying out some geological investigation.


(spacecraft,Venus,NASA)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magellan_(spacecraft)
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/magellan/
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1989-033B
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1993LPI....24.1237S/abstract
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/magellan.html
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/magellan/

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