Lavinia Planitia (IMAGE)

North Carolina State University

Lavinia Planitia

Caption

A 1,100 km-wide, false-color radar view of Lavinia Planitia, one of the lowland regions on Venus where the lithosphere has fragmented into blocks (purple) delineated by belts of tectonic structures (yellow).

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NC State University, based upon original NASA/JPL imagery.

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