VENUS UNVEILED - THE MAGELLAN IMAGES

The availability of Magellan radar images of Venus on CDROM allows sma ll research groups to engage in planetary physics projects using simpl e image processing systems. The material lends itself to short project s for high school students or Masters students. Our initial investigat ions using the Magellan data have evolved into a Masters project which concentrates on the morphology of small scale structures which have t errestrial counterparts. These include studies of volcanic cone fields , lava tubes and other collapse features, and impact features.