Soviet Venus Images (2004)
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Soviet Venus Images (2004)
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#2Absolutely fascinating. The technology that already existed in the 60’s and 70’s is mind boggling.
Also, there is something really exciting about looking at pictures of an alien planet. :)
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#3TIL: Vega-1 and Vega-2 did ~10,000 km and ~8,000 km flybys of Halley’s Comet. Vega-2’s photo of the potato-shaped nucleus is stunning.
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#4This is a pretty awesome use of manual image processing.
It's amazing that so much of the exposed surface rock looks like slate. It's strange when you consider there's no continental uplift to expose metamorphic rock.
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#5This is a pretty awesome use of manual image processing. It's amazing that so much of the exposed surface rock looks like slate. It's strange when you consider there's no continental uplift to expose metamorphic rock.
You have an amazing eye! This is actually a research question that the DAVINCI+ mission aims to explore, are there/were there active volcanoes on Venus up until the recent past?
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#6This is a pretty awesome use of manual image processing. It's amazing that so much of the exposed surface rock looks like slate. It's strange when you consider there's no continental uplift to expose metamorphic rock.
You have an amazing eye! This is actually a research question that the DAVINCI+ mission aims to explore, are there/were there active volcanoes on Venus up until the recent past? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessera_(Venus)
Wow. This is a fascinating set of models. And they're about why these rocks are on the surface! Impact events make sense, but the atmosphere is so thick, burning up meteors, it seems like the chances of landing right by an exposed set of rock like that from a recent enough impact would be fairly slim. The downwelling/convection model makes a little more sense. That was what I was trying to figure out. Not an astro-geologist here, just a garden variety HN dropout designer/coder. But I always secretly wanted to work for NASA. I appreciate the kind word. This definitely sparked my curiosity ;)
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
You have an amazing eye! This is actually a research question that the DAVINCI+ mission aims to explore, are there/were there active volcanoes on Venus up until the recent past? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessera_(Venus)
Wow. This is a fascinating set of models. And they're about why these rocks are on the surface! Impact events make sense, but the atmosphere is so thick, burning up meteors, it seems like the chances of landing right by an exposed set of rock like that from a recent enough impact would be fairly slim. The downwelling/convection model makes a little more sense. That was what I was trying to figure out. Not an astro-ge…
You always can! There are tons of outreach communities, and good design + programming skillsets are always needed.
If you're on ClubHouse, I'm happy to invite you to Small Steps & Giant Leaps, we have regular "rooms" with folks at NASA, ESA, the private space industry and (soon) JAXA.
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#9TIL: Vega-1 and Vega-2 did ~10,000 km and ~8,000 km flybys of Halley’s Comet. Vega-2’s photo of the potato-shaped nucleus is stunning.
Halley looks eerily similar to Churimov-Gerasimenko [0] in that image! I wonder if this dumbbell shape is common in comets and why should that be.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/67P/Churyumov%E2%80%93Gerasime...
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow. This is a fascinating set of models. And they're about why these rocks are on the surface! Impact events make sense, but the atmosphere is so thick, burning up meteors, it seems like the chances of landing right by an exposed set of rock like that from a recent enough impact would be fairly slim. The downwelling/convection model makes a little more sense. That was what I was trying to figure out. Not an astro-ge…
You always can! There are tons of outreach communities, and good design + programming skillsets are always needed. If you're on ClubHouse, I'm happy to invite you to Small Steps & Giant Leaps, we have regular "rooms" with folks at NASA, ESA, the private space industry and (soon) JAXA. https://twitter.com/StepsLeaps
Aw man that sounds so great. I'm not on any of those platforms. But I wanted to share this with you. When I was about 7-8 years old, my best friend's dad worked at JPL. He gave me this folder with a thick stack of 8x10 color glossy photos, explanations on the back, from the Voyager missions. I keep it on my bookshelf. I just scanned a few for you. This is the stuff I grew up with. You can contact me @ the owner of said website.
[edit] I've been crawled 45 times by Baidu in the last 15 minutes so . uh. I'm taking that link down. I really would love to continue this conversation and just add my brain to the mix if there's some cool way to do that.