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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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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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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