Astronomy Picture of the Day

                         Astronomy Picture of the Day

    Discover the cosmos! [1] Each day a different image or photograph of our
 fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a
                           professional astronomer.

                               2019 February 10
                                      [2]
                                Venus Unveiled
 Image Credit: Venus (left): NASA [3] , JPL [4] , Magellan Project [5] ; Earth
                      (right): NASA [6] , Apollo 17 [7]

Explanation: What does Venus [8]  look like beneath its thick clouds? These
clouds [9]  keep the planet's surface hidden from even the powerful telescopic
eyes of Earth-bound astronomers. In the early 1990s, though, using imaging
radar, NASA's Venus-orbiting Magellan spacecraft [10]  was able to lift the
veil [11]  from the face of Venus [12]  and produced spectacular high
resolution image [13] s of the planet's surface. Colors used in this computer
generated picture of Magellan [14]  radar data are based on color image [15] s
from the surface of Venus transmitted by the Soviet [16] Venera [17]  13 and
14 landers. The bright area running roughly across the middle represents the
largest highland region of Venus known as Aphrodite Terra [18] . Venus, on the
left, is about the same size [19]  as our Earth [20] , shown to the right for
comparison.

                      Tomorrow's picture: plane new moon

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