1985
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1985)96<137:tsovar>2.0.co;2
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The surface of Venus as revealed by the Venera landings: Part II

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“…The dense atmosphere includes a perpetual cloud cover that hides the entire surface of Venus from direct view from orbit, except through the use of radar. Lander images returned by Venera 8 and 9 (Florensky et al, 1977) and Venera 13 and 14 (Basilevsky et al, 1985;Head and Basilevsky, 1999) show that the surface of Venus includes an abundance of fine-grained particles capable of being moved by the wind, but no aeolian bedforms were imaged within the limited field of view available to the lander cameras. …”
Section: Dunes On Venusmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The dense atmosphere includes a perpetual cloud cover that hides the entire surface of Venus from direct view from orbit, except through the use of radar. Lander images returned by Venera 8 and 9 (Florensky et al, 1977) and Venera 13 and 14 (Basilevsky et al, 1985;Head and Basilevsky, 1999) show that the surface of Venus includes an abundance of fine-grained particles capable of being moved by the wind, but no aeolian bedforms were imaged within the limited field of view available to the lander cameras. …”
Section: Dunes On Venusmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The former values are similar to those for terrestrial compacted sand, whereas the latter range is consistent with a volcanic tuff. Such low-strength materials indicate that even in a volcanismdominated planet such as Venus, surface modification processes operate to form a thin regolith layer (Basilevsky et al, 1985). Shallow ($5 cm deep) surface drills were also employed by Venera 13 and 14 to retrieve rock and/or soil cuttings for geochemical analyses conducted within the protected body of the landers.…”
Section: Mechanical Properties Inferred From Penetrometer Datamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Surface erosion exists without doubt on Venus but its rate seems to be rather very low comparable with that on the lunar surface in the post-mare time than with the terrestrial or even martian rates. Existence of erosion on the surface of Venus has been proved through the analysis of TV panoramas sent to Earth by Venera landers (Florensky et al, 1977;Basilevsky et al, 1985). The observations have shown the presence of rock outcrops and loose soil with a trend for soil to occupy lows in the local topography at Venera 10, 13, and 14 sites as well as a rock-fragmented talus on the steep slopes of the Venera 9 site.…”
Section: Plate Tectonicsmentioning
confidence: 99%