Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 1.08.2010 . ... JPL ), MIPL , Magellan Team , NASA Explanation: If you could look across Venus with radar eyes, what might you see? This computer reconstruction of the surface of Venus was created from data from the Magellan spacecraft. Magellan orbited Venus and used radar to map our neighboring planet 's surface between 1990 and 1994. ... Publications with keywords: Venus - Magellan Project . Publications with words: Venus - Magellan Project . ...