Magellan

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Magellan was a NASA space probe launched on May 1989 to map the surface of Venus by using synthetic-aperture radar and to measure the planet's gravitational field. It was the first interplanetary spacecraft deployed from a Space Shuttle, and to this day, the Venusian maps it generated are the most detailed ever created. The spacecraft arrived on Venus on 1990-Aug-10, and mapped the entire planet until 1994-Oct-13

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• Requires the Space Shuttle addon in order for this addon to fully work.
• Shuttle missions modified by this addon: STS-30

Launch of STS-30 (Atlantis) and the deployment of Magellan, 1989-May-4

A reprojection of Maat Mons based on Magellan data

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