Description
- NASA's Venus radar mapper. The kit looks quite realistic, with blue & silver solar panels.
- Lots of bonded metallic gold foil illustrates thermal control components.
- Assembled model is about 10 inches (26 cm) overall. Scale is the same as the Voyager model, approximately 1/30.
- All of these kits are made in the USA. Do not let the fact that these are laser cut recycled paper kits deceive you.
- These are fantastically detailed models which are very realistic. These are great to hang from the ceiling for display.
Styrofoam High-Gain Antenna dish similar to Voyager's. Information is included on Magellan's 3 modes of radar sensing which it used to map Venus's cloud-hidden surface, Magellan's aerobraking adventure, and the Venus gravity field survey.
