| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
|
 Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:13 am Post subject: Niiiiice..... (warning: space thread) |
 |
|
Check this out. This guy has been poring over old Soviet Venera data from the 70s (I think that was the 70s anyway, doesn't matter) and has been using the original data to reconstruct the images. Not just for the fun of it but also because there's a lot of data there that got lost back when photographic technology wasn't as advanced as now. He's turned images that look like this:
into this:
The hills didn't even show up the first time, so there's a big plus right there. Dope. Here's the link.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060911_venus_images.html
PS: dog meat.
(desperate attempt to get more replies before the thread drops out of sight) |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
|
| Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:40 pm Post subject: |
|
|
These can't possibly be accurate. Ray Bradbury said that Venus was deluged with never-ending rain.  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
|
| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:49 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| pretty cool. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
RobinH
Joined: 18 Feb 2006
Location: Mid-bulk transport, standard radeon accelerator core, class code 03-K64--Firefly.
|
| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:45 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| bump |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
|
| Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:00 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Do you think they serve boshintang on Venus? If we terraformed Mars, and one of the only animals that could adapt to the new biosphere were dogs, would we hunt them  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
