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Title

Publication

Publication Type

Authors

Subjects

Date

Title

Pioneer Venus radar mapper experiment

Publication

Science February 1979. 1979Sci...203..806P.

Publication Type

Article

Authors

Pettengill, G.H. and Ford, P.G. and Brown, W.E. and Kaula, W.M. and Keller, C.H. and Masursky, H. and McGill, G.E.

Subjects

ALTIMETRY, ATMOSPHERIC SCATTERING, MAPPING, PIONEER VENUS, PIONEER VENUS 1 SPACECRAFT, PLANETARY MAPPING, RADAR, RADAR IMAGERY, RADAR MAPS, RADAR MEASUREMENT, RADAR SCATTERING, RADIO ALTIMETERS, Scattering, SURFACE, TOPOGRAPHY, VENUS, VENUS ATMOSPHERE

Date

1979

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