We miss you, Arecibo.
Venus’ perpetually cloud-shrouded surface remains penetrable only by radio waves.
A planetary radar group now reports results of an extended series of radar measurements of the topography of Venus that for the first time provides a view of surface height variations around the entire circumference of the planet.Those observations were taken by the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, which was the most powerful radar system for mapping rocky bodies in outer space until its
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