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A crater 1.5 km across in the Venera-13 panoramic image taken on the surface of the planet

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The reprocessing of the archive data of the television experiment performed by the Venera-13 spacecraft in 1982 on the surface of the planet allowed an image of the nearby crater 1.5 km across to be obtained in detail. Its structural features apparently indicate its volcanic origin. All of the earlier acquired analogous images of such formations were composed only from the orbital radar data and correspond to the sizes of tens of kilometers.

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  1. Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya ul. 84/32, Moscow, 117997, Russia

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Original Russian Text © L.V. Ksanfomality, 2014, published in Astronomicheskii Vestnik, 2014, Vol. 48, No. 6, pp. 454–457.

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Ksanfomality, L.V. A crater 1.5 km across in the Venera-13 panoramic image taken on the surface of the planet. Sol Syst Res 48, 420–423 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0038094614060033

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