Gordon Pettengill4 May 1989
Magellan launches to map Venus with synthetic aperture radar.
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Magellan launches to map Venus with synthetic aperture radar.
Magellan begins its first radar mapping cycle, imaging the cloud-hidden surface of Venus at far higher resolution than previous missions.
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