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Letter Report
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... The images obtained from the Pioneer-Venus orbiter have demonstrated the feasibility of synthetic aperture radar techniques to map the surface of Venus. As a result we are ;- r' now able to identify the major physiographic features of the surface and, in a limited sense, to characterize global Tlte N/dio,"d Raearcll Council is tile principal operanng agency of tile National AcaU"'Y of Sciences and tile National Academy of Engineering to JerfJegwernment and otllerorganiunon.
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... mission before the agency, because of fiscal restraints, was obliged to reduce the scope of this mission to the more modest level represented by the VRM. Because the first priority science objective in the strategy for Venus has been preserved in the VRM and because it will address adequately the associated measurement requirements, COMPLEX believes its endorsement of VOIR can also be applied to the VRM.
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... Moore r 22 October 1982 Page 3 in FY84 must be accompanied by a sustaining baseline support for research and analysis mission operations and data analysis, including theory. Such an action is clearly required to maintain a healthy program, and it would be clearly perceived as a positive indication for the u.S.
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  • venus radar
  • operanng agency
  • sustaining baseline
  • joseph henry
  • major physiographic

  • committee requests
  • shrinking level
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  • analysis mission
  • measurement requirements

  • radar mapper
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