NAIF ID 299

Venus is the second planet from the Sun and our closest planetary neighbor.  With a radius of 6,052 km, Venus is similar in structure and size to Earth.  Venus spins slowly in the opposite direction from most planets. Its thick atmosphere traps heat in a runaway greenhouse effect, making it the hottest planet in our solar system with surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead. Glimpses below the clouds reveal volcanoes and deformed mountains.  Venus is named for the ancient Roman goddess of love and beauty, who was known as Aphrodite to the Ancient Greeks.  NASA's Magellan spacecraft orbited Venus 10 August 1990 to 13 October 1994, conducting radar observations of the surface through Venus's thick cloud cover.

Venus

SPICE-corrected image locations and searching capabilities using a navigable map, user selectable image constraints, bulk-download and image processing using POW

Planetary Image Locator Tool

PDS Image Atlas

Cross-mission and cross-instrument searches for images and spectra from Cassini, Voyager 1 and 2, Galileo, New Horizons, and the Hubble Space Telescope

Outer Planets Unified Search

Text-based and an interactive map-based search interface for finding and downloading desired orbital observations

Venus Information Page

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