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Physics News Update
Number 1 (Story #2), September 28, 1990 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein

THE MAGELLAN SPACECRAFT map of Venus (2% of the surface so far) provides images 10 to 100 better than previous radar surveys. Strange tectonics--plentiful volcanoes and weird fracture systems--are at work. (NY Times, 26 September, p. A1)