The JPL-led international team used the island as a stand-in for Venus to test radar technologies that will help uncover the planet’s ground truth. With its crushing atmospheric pressure, clouds of sulfuric acid, and searing surface temperature, Venus is an especially challenging place to study.
of southwestern Iceland. The barren and rocky landscapes of both resemble Venus’ surface, which is thought to be rejuvenated by active volcanism.
Using a tripod-mounted lidar scanner, the science team created this image that highlighted the ropy texture of new rock formed by a recent lava flow near Iceland’s Litli-Hrútur volcano. This will be used to compare with the campaign’s airborne radar images of the same region. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
This artist’s concept shows the proposed VERITAS spacecraft using its radar to produce high-resolution maps of Venus’ topographic and geologic features. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A key goal for the campaign was to also create a sample library of as many volcanic surface textures in Iceland as possible to better understand Venus’ range of eruption styles. A DLR field team also collected compositional information with a camera that emulates the Venus Emissivity Mapper instrument the German Aerospace Center is building for VERITAS. This data will support the spectral library being created at the Planetary Spectroscopy Laboratory in Berlin.
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