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 17 2021, 10:49 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1444 Joined: 26-July 08 Member No.: 4270 |
There's significantly more images from the surface of Venus than just the ones contained there; the cameras on Venera 13 and 14 took several images each (even if from the same perspective). Maybe they were different colour filters, but there is some separation in time between the images, and the recent conversation about Venus' images encouraged me to see about putting some together into a sort of animation. In this case, I've taken the images from the Venera 13 Camera 1 and "animated" them after some (extraordinarily) crude alignment. I think I can see dust clearing off of the landing ring near the bottom-centre of the image. Edit: I've done the same with the images I have from Venera 13 Camera 2 and the dust motion is far, far more conclusively visible.
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