The Veritas Mission to Venus: A High Resolution Topographic Map

Veritas is going to do something that is really desperately needed in terms of understanding of volcanism and a lot of other geophysical processes on the surface. On Veritas, we will make a map that has a resolution of 250 meters with really good height accuracy about five meters. That coupled with high resolution imagery of either 30 meters for globally or 15 meters for about 25% of the surface,. Those two things are dramatically going to change our understanding of a lot of processes on Venus.