Venus surface images |
Venus surface images |
Mar 9 2021, 09:47 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
I have a question arising from the recent surface images acquired by the Parker Solar Probe (but best discussed in this section, I think, if anyone has comments). Would a camera with similar specifications to WISPR but located on Earth or in Earth orbit be able in principle to image the night-side surface? It presents quite a large target when suitably placed and I imagine some sort of coronagraph arrangement could be used to exclude light from the sunlit crescent.
EDIT - link reposted here: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/p...g-view-of-venus |
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Mar 15 2021, 10:05 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 436 Joined: 14-December 15 Member No.: 7860 |
Here are my scans of photos taken by the Venera 13 and 14 probes, which were published in a color Russian newspaper around the mid-1980s.
I don't remember the title of the newspaper or the exact year it was published - I only have 2 pages torn out of it. But I'm pretty sure they were published sometime before 1986. The newspaper was issued on chalky paper and contained photos - for a Soviet edition - of very good quality. I have no idea how these photos were processed for publication. Seems like a little too much red hue has been given (?), but in general the photos contain a lot of details and are devoid of "artifacts of modern computer processing" (this was the era before PCs). The downside is, however, mechanical abrasions and minor damage to the paper (they are quite old). I do not know if they bring anything new, but they give a slightly different impression than the well-known modern computer reconstructions of Venera 13 and 14 photos, and ... I have always liked them |
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