This document is the user guide to the Magellan Synthetic Aperture Radar Images
This document serves as a user guide for the Magellan Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data collected during the Venus mapping mission. It explains spacecraft components, mission design, experimental objectives, operational procedures, and data product descriptions. The guide is intended for researchers unfamiliar with the mission, offering summaries of key information to help them access and interpret the data archive. It includes details on data products, anomalies, and ordering information, with references to additional documentation.
This document serves as a guide to the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) or imaging data acquired by the Magellan Project during its mapping of Venus.
The high-gain antenna was used both for communications with Earth and for transmitting radar signals to and receiving reflected radar signals from the surface of Venus.