The First Time We Saw All of Venus: The Magellan Mission

NASA’s Magellan mission gave us unprecedented insight into Venus’s rocky surface, and even now, more than 25 years after the mission ended, it’s still one of our main tools for learning about our mysterious, next-door neighbor. Hosted by Reid Reimers SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/magellan/in-depth/ https://roundupreads.jsc.nasa.gov/pages.ashx/1148/Thirty%20Years%20Ago%20Magellan%20Off%20to%20Map%20Venus http://solarviews.com/eng/magellan.htm https://www.americaspace.com/2019/10/13/mission-to-earths-twisted-twin-remembering-the-magellan-voyage-to-venus-25-years-on/ https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/reference/shutref/orbiter/cw/pdrs.html https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/what-is-sar https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=5626 https://www.planetary.org/articles/the-venus-controversy https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/facts/tectonic-features.html https://sci.esa.int/web/venus-express/-/58085-what-lies-beneath-venus-surface-revealed-through-the-clouds Images: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13640 https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/magellan/in-depth/ https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20142 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3728 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mariner_5.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Space_probe_Venera_on_the_venus_surface_(artist_recreation).jpg https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/history/sts30_140502.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Atlantis_and_Magellan_(3).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Magellan_orbit.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Magellan_-_end_of_mission_poster_-_mgnlogo2.gif https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:VenusAnimation.ogv https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PIA00103_Venus_-_3-D_Perspective_View_of_Lavinia_Planitia.jpg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30358 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30357 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20190