Aug 10 1990
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
The $744 million Magellan spacecraft launched in May 1989 reached Venus and achieved polar orbit for a mission to map the entire planet. The radar-produced images promised to be 10 times more detailed than those from previous expeditions that had mapped only sections of Venus. Information from the mission could also provide a better understanding of predicted global warming, or the greenhouse effect, said NASA scientist Gentry Lee. (NY Times, Aug 11/90; W Post, Aug 11/90; LA Times, Aug 11/90; C Trib, Aug 11/90)
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