VENUS UNMASKED

A peak higher than Everest

WASHINGTON (UPI) -
Beneath the permanent
clouds shrouding the planet
Venus lies what may be a
hot, gently rolling super-
continent with = scattered
mountains, ancient craters
and deep valleys, the space
agency reported Wed-
nesday.

The agency said a new
report based on information
from the Pioneer Venus
radar satellite showed only
about 16 per cent of the
planet’s surface consists of
low-lying basins comparable
to Earth's ocean basins.
Perched on top of the giant
continent are two highland
regions.

The tallest peak seen by
the satellite radar mses
27,000 feet above surround-
ing terrain and 35,300 feet
above the predominant con-
tinental plain that scientists
use as “sea level” on the dry
surface of Venus. The

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mountain, called Maxwell
Montes, is taller than Earth's
highest, the 29,000-foot
Mount Everest.

The National Aeronautics
and Space Administration
based its report on the
Pioneer Venus analysis of
Drs. Harold Masursky of the
U.S, Geological Survey and
G.™ Pettengill of the Mas-
sachusetts instjtute of Tech-
nology. The satellite reached
Venus in December 1978
and 1s still working.

Separate atmospheric
probes that accompanied the
satellite) measured surface
temperatures of 917 degrees
Fahrenheit.

Pioneer Venus’ radar has
covered 93 per cent of the
planet.

The space agency said the
highest and most dramatic
highland region seen in the
new radar maps is called
Ishtar Terra ater the Babylo-
mian goddess of love and

war. It is about the size of
Austraha with Maxwell and
other mountains in the East,
and additional ranges in the
West and North.

The other highland region
mapped by the Pioneer
Venus radar has been
tentatively named Aphrodite
Terra after the Greek
goddess of love and beauty.
It is as large as the northern
half of Afnca and consists of
two mountainous areas
separated by a lower region.

The largest basin on
Venus is about 9,000 feet
beneath the gently rolling
continental plain used as a
reference level. NASA said
this low area, hike others on
Venus, appears smooth to
the radar and may be
relatively young geologically
and blanketed by lava flows.

The space agency said the
lowest point of Venus ap-
pears to be a 9,500-foot-deep
trench in a valle just east of

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Aphrodite. There is a similar
valley region east of Ishtar.

Rising out of the con-
tinental plains of Venus are
what appear to be two huge
volcanoes, larger but shaped
like the volcanoes of Hawaii.
Two robot Soviet spacecraft
landed just east of this
volcanic region and found
radioactive element  con-
centrations similar to those
in basaltic lava flows.

Masursky and Pettengill
said it now appears that
Venus’ crust is thicker than
Earth's but not as thick as
those on Mars and the moon.

They said the lower part of
the crust apparently consists
of heavy basalt-lke rock
surrounding the whole
planet. On top of the basalt
is what seems to be a layer of
lighter, granite-hke = rock
apparently forming the
single, globe-girdling
continent.

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