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COVER: A false-color synthetic aperture radar (SAR) view of the northern portion of Tellus Tessera, one of the regions on Venus where Byrne et al. identify the presence of layering. Examples of this layering are visible in the center and lower left of the scene. Tesserae on Venus are regions of substantial tectonic deformation that appear locally stratigraphically older than the surrounding plains. View is ~260 km across, with north to the right. These SAR data are from the NASA Magellan mission, and have a resolution of ~100 m/pixel. See “Venus tesserae feature layered, folded, and eroded rocks” by Byrne et al., p. 81–85.