Venus
Venus without its clouds: the Magellan radar map of a volcanic world hotter than an oven.
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About this globe
Venus hides under an unbroken deck of sulfuric-acid clouds, so NASA's Magellan mission mapped it with radar between 1990 and 1994. This globe shows that radar view of the surface: volcanic plains, highland continents, and pancake domes found nowhere else.
It is the hottest planetary surface in the solar system — around 465 °C, hot enough to melt lead.
How the data was captured
No camera can see this surface — Venus's clouds are opaque. NASA's Magellan spacecraft mapped it by radar between 1990 and 1994, bouncing radio pulses through the clouds and timing the echoes; the colors here show elevation.
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Print at 100% scale. Cut along solid lines, fold along dashed lines, glue the tabs. Your PDF can take up to a minute to prepare — hang tight after clicking.
In the US? Print the A4 file and choose “fit to page” — it scales cleanly onto Letter paper.
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"Venus" folding paper globe — free from Folding Globes, https://foldingglobes.com/globes/venus · Imagery: NASA/JPL Magellan