Akatsuki Venus Climate Orbiter |
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I thought it was time to start a separate thread on this mission, launching soon
some good medium-resolution images of the spacecraft are available on JAXA digital archives http://jda.jaxa.jp/jda/p3_e.php?time=N&...mp;mission=4066 |
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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 ![]() |
atmosphere animations from IR2 (in Japanese)
http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/j/enterp/missions/...ile/index.shtml |
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WOW. After I watched it about ten times, I noticed the slow morphing of features over time. This smooth animation was made from just 4 frames, so there was effort put into animating it nicely like this.
Obviously, this detail is due to clouds, not the surface: The surface rotates much more slowly. IR2 (a term which conveniently is written in the Latin alphabet) images at 2.26μm, and the signal for this instrument is dominated by atmospheric variation at 35-50 km altitude. That will be true of all results mentioning 2.26μm, which can save all of us non-Japanese speakers from puzzling too much about what the text says. |
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