[DOC] [TLE] ch7 - NASA History Homepage [PAR] Impact craters exhibit a wide range of degradation on different planets, ... ejecta, 
crater-floor roughness, and other characteristics of impact craters, no ... (2) 
Double-ring craters have an outer rim and an inner ring. ... Once believed to be a 
volcanic caldera, this crater was shown by Magellan data to have an impact 
origin. [DOC] [TLE] Cleopatra (crater) - Wikipedia [PAR] Planet, Venus. Coordinates  6548N 706E / 65.8N 7.1E / 65.8; 7.1
Coordinates: 6548N 706E / 65.8N 7.1E / 65.8; 7.1  Diameter, 105 km. 
Eponym  Cleopatra VII. Initially called Cleopatra Patera,Cleopatra is an impact 
crater on Venus, in Maxwell Montes. ... A volcanic origin initially was supported 
due to non-impact geologic aspects,... [DOC] [TLE] Venusian Impact Craters - Views of the Solar System [PAR] Projectiles able to penetrate a planet's atmosphere impact the surface at a ... 
Venus shows no record of the heavy bombardment period, indicating that it ... [
1992] have classified the Venusian impact craters seen in Magellan images .... "
Cleopatra crater on Venus: Venera 15/16 data and impact/volcanic origin 
controversy. [DOC] [TLE] Venusian Impact Craters [PAR] Projectiles able to penetrate a planet's atmosphere impact the surface at a ... 
Venus shows no record of the heavy bombardment period, indicating that it ... [
1992] have classified the Venusian impact craters seen in Magellan images .... "
Cleopatra crater on Venus: Venera 15/16 data and impact/volcanic origin 
controversy. [DOC] [TLE] Chapter 9, section 4 [PAR] (Sec. 6.6) Analysis of the radar echoes yields a map of the planet's surface. ... 
Figure 9.8(a) shows basically the same Pioneer Venus data of Venus as Figure ... 
(Note that the blue has nothing to do with oceans, and white does not indicate 
snow-capped mountains!) ... Cleopatra was originally thought to be volcanic in 
origin. [DOC] [TLE] Chapter 9, Section 4 [PAR] 6.6) Analysis of the radar echoes yields a map of the planet's surface; except for 
... to do with oceans, and white does not indicate snow-capped mountains! ... in 
origin, although some volcanic activity was associated with its formation. .... 
Figure 9.14 (a) A Magellan image of an impact crater in Venus's southern 
hemisphere. [DOC] [TLE] Cleopatra Crater on Venus: Happy Solution of the Volcanic vs ... [PAR] The Magellan data clearly confirm the impact origin of Cleopatra. ... inner floor of 
Cleopatra passed through a breach in the outer rim of the crater ... Magellan has 
also revealed what the Venera 15/16 data did not: the ... Magellan altimetry data 
indicates that the inner and outer floors of Cleopatra are ... 16th Lunar and Planet
. [DOC] [TLE] Chapter 7: Venus - Exploring the Planets [PAR] Impact craters are not abundant, suggesting the surface is on average 0.5 billion 
... Venus has been resurfaced many times by tectonic and volcanic processes. 4. 
... was constructed from radar altimeter data collected by the Magellan orbiter. ... 
is unique to Earth and Venus, the two largest planets of the inner solar system. [DOC] [TLE] Chapter 9 [PAR] (Background, above) The Magellan robot spacecraft is seen here in artist's 
conception orbiting .... Figure 9.3 The inner four planets of the solar system--
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and .... The Pioneer multiprobe data indicate that the 
clouds may actually be separated ..... Not all of the craters found on Venus are 
volcanic in origin. [DOC] [TLE] Cleopatra Crater, a Circular Portal to the Soul of Venus [PAR] 105 km) impact crater located high on the flanks of. Maxwell Montes ... With an 
elevation ~4 km above mean planetary radius ... distinct from the volcanic plains 
sampled by the ... overall interior structure and thermal history of Venus. ... 
located inside the inner ring of Cleopatra would sam- ... problems with the 
Magellan data). [DOC] [TLE] abundant impact craters: Topics by Science.gov [PAR] Note: this THEMIS visual image has not been radiometrically nor .... The ejecta 
material around the crater can is well

Question: Magellan data indicate the Cleopatra crater on this inner planet is of impact, not volcanic, origin
Answer: Venus