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False-colour perspective view of Ovda Regio, the western section of Aphrodite Terra. The image shows the lowlands, to the left in red and orange, and the complex tessera characteristic of Venusian highlands. The image is based on radar observations made by the Magellan spacecraft. rift valley on Venus False-colour image of a shield volcano on Aphrodite Terra, north of Ovda Regio. The summit of the volcano is in the back of the image; lava flows can be seen on its right face. A fracture zone is responsible for the ridge of hills on the far right. The image is based on data from the Magellan spacecraft, and the vertical scale is highly exaggerated.
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Ovda Regio

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False-colour perspective view of Ovda Regio, the western section of Aphrodite Terra. The image shows the lowlands, to the left in red and orange, and the complex tessera characteristic of Venusian highlands. The image is based on radar observations made by the Magellan spacecraft.
False-colour perspective view of Ovda Regio, the western section of Aphrodite Terra. The image shows the lowlands, to the left in red and orange, and the complex tessera characteristic of Venusian highlands. The image is based on radar observations made by the Magellan spacecraft.

Ovda Regio is a highland area on the planet Venus, located within the larger Aphrodite Terra region. It is one of the continent-sized highland areas on Venus, with elevations significantly higher than most of the planet's surface, typically between 1 and 5 km above the mean planetary radius. Ovda Regio spans about 4,000 km north to south and is primarily composed of tessera terrain. This terrain is characterized by extremely rugged and highly deformed landscapes with complex intersecting ridges and troughs, suggesting multiple episodes of mountain building and faulting. The exact geological processes that formed Ovda Regio are still being studied, but they likely involved crustal thickening due to mantle activity.1

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  1. Venus - Plains deformation belts
  2. Aphrodite Terra

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