| Description | File containing funding proposals by McKenzie and Anthony 'Tony' Watts for the project "The relationship between gravity and bathymetry in the Pacific Ocean"*, sent to the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), June 1978 to January 1979, the research from which resulted in the papers: McKenzie, D and A B Watts, B Parsons & M Roufosse, "Planform of mantle convection beneath the Pacific Ocean", 'Nature', vol 288 (1980) pp442-446, and Watts, A B & D McKenzie, B Parsons & M Roufosse, "The relationship between gravity and bathymetry in the Pacific Ocean", 'Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society', vol 83 (1985), pp263-298. Also pamphlet, 'Announcement of Opportunity. Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar (VOIR)', NASA, 12 October 1978, with copy letter from McKenzie expressing his interest to use the data from VOIR to compare the gravity field and surface shape of Venus, with the data he is similarly compiling from the Earth, as he believes that mantle convection is key, 9 November 1978*. Also three letters concerning the importation of computer tapes by post, January 1981. |
| Administrative History | The proposed Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar (VOIR) mission was cancelled in 1982 due to budgetary issues. |