False-color radar view of Lavinia Planitia (IMAGE)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

False-color radar view of Lavinia Planitia

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A 1,100-km-wide, false-color radar view of Lavinia Planitia, one of the lowland regions on Venus where the lithosphere has fragmented into blocks (purple) delineated by belts of tectonic structures (yellow).

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Image credit: Paul K. Byrne and Sean C. Solomon.

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