Venus

Venus Fact Sheet

Images of Venus - from the Catalog of Spaceborne Imaging

NSSDC Planetary Photo Gallery - More Images of Venus

Reference Books on Venus

Frequently Asked Questions

Missions to Venus

Magellan - NASA Venus Radar Mapping Mission (1989-1994)

Pioneer Venus - NASA Orbiter/Probes to Venus (1978-1992)

Galileo - NASA Mission to Jupiter (Venus flyby - 1990)

Vega 1 - Soviet mission to Venus and Comet Halley (Venus flyby - 1985)

Vega 2 - Soviet mission to Venus and Comet Halley (Venus flyby - 1985)

Venera - Soviet Venus Missions (1961-1983)

Mariner 10 - NASA Mission to Venus and Mercury (1973-1975)

Mariner 5 - NASA Venus flyby (1967)

Mariner 2 - NASA Venus flyby (1962)

Future Missions

MESSENGER - NASA Mercury Orbiter (2004) (Two Venus Flybys)

Venus Express - ESA Venus Orbiter (2005)

Planet-C - ISAS Venus Orbiter (2007)

BepiColombo - ESA Mercury Orbiters and Lander (2009) (Possible Venus Flyby)

Venus Chronology - Timeline of all attempted and future Venus missions

Other Venus Resources

Magellan Fact Sheet

Planetary positions - generates coordinates for chosen planet at a given time

Venus Thermospheric and Ionospheric Models - Based on Pioneer Venus Data

Venus Feature Names and Locations - Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

PDS Microwave Subnode at MIT

More about Venus - The Nine Planets

Venus Data on CD-ROM

Magellan Venus radar image mosaics

Magellan Venus altimetry/radiometry data records

Magellan Venus global data records

Pre-Magellan data

Magellan Venus FMAPs

Magellan Venus LOS gravity data

Pioneer Venus fields and particles data

Galileo CD-ROMs - Venus flyby data

Index of Other Planet Home Pages

Author/Curator:
Dr. David R. Williams, dwilliam@nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov
NSSDC, Mail Code 633
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD 20771
+1-301-286-1258

NASA Official: Ed Grayzeck, edwin.j.grayzeck@nasa.gov
Last Updated: 01 September 2004, DRW