This archive contains Magellan spherical harmonic models of Venus gravity and topography field, and digital maps of the Bouguer anomalies, free-air gravity accelerations and errors, geoid anomalies and errors, and topography.

 
Citation Sjogren, W. L., MGN V RSS SPHERICAL HARMONIC AND GRAVITY MAP DATA V1.0, MGN-V-RSS-5-GRAVITY-L2-V1.0, NASA Planetary Data System, 1997
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.17189/1522521
Data Set Abstract The gravitational signature of Venus was determined from velocity perturbations of the Pioneer Venus Orbiter (PVO) and the Magellan spacecraft as measured from the Doppler shift of the S-band and X-band radio tracking signal. The spacecraft were tracked by NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) at Goldstone, California, Canberra, Australia, and Madrid, Spain. The tracking data were used to determine the spacecraft orbits about Venus, as well as the Venusian gravity field. A detailed description of how the spacecraft orbits were computed and an assessment of their quality can be found in [KONOPLIV&SJOGREN1996]. For information on Magellan gravity investigations see papers in [ICARUSMGN1994].
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    Mission Information MAGELLAN
    Data Set Information MGN-V-RSS-5-GRAVITY-L2-V1.0
    Instrument Host Information MGN
    Instrument Information RSS
    Target Information VENUS