Guide to Magellan Image Interpretation

Figure 7-5. Mead crater is the largest impact crater on Venus, with a diameter of 280 km.

Figure 7-5. Mead crater is the largest impact crater on Venus, with a diameter of 280 km. The crater has an inner and an outer ring and a small ejecta blanket surrounding the outer ring. The crater floor looks very similar in morphology to the surrounding plain. The dark vertical bands running through the image are artifacts associated with processing the SAR data. Illumination is from the left at an incidence angle of 45 deg.

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