Galileo images and mosaics of Europa |
Galileo images and mosaics of Europa |
Aug 22 2005, 04:03 AM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
I have worked on sprucing up some global views of Europa from Galileo. There are a few more global views I hope to get to eventually. But the best two at nearly full phase benefited a lot.
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Dec 29 2005, 05:06 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 753 Joined: 23-October 04 From: Greensboro, NC USA Member No.: 103 |
Answering my own question: counting only the terrestrial and icy planets and moons, and not including any asteroids, comets or KBOs, the total surface area of the non-Earth "solid" solar system objects is roughly 281.7 million square kilometers, or about 2.2 times the total surface area of the Earth (including the oceans).
That seems low somehow. But assuming it's correct, and assuming that an astronaut could explore 10 km^2 of surface area per day, it would take 28 million "person-days" to explore the surfaces of the moons and planets in our solar system. That sounds like steady employment well into the next century. -------------------- Jonathan Ward
Manning the LCC at http://www.apollolaunchcontrol.com |
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Jan 21 2006, 09:44 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 78 Joined: 29-December 05 Member No.: 623 |
Here's a challenge that I hope one of you might accept. During the E12 Galileo orbit, there was a sequence of Galileo color images obtained of Conamara Chaos. Below is work by the Galileo SSI team to assemble these into color mosaics. This color imaging is enough to paint much of the famous E6 Conamara Chaos mosaic in true color (or near-true color extrapolated from 2 colors)--unfortunately we still only see this region painted by false bluish color based only on the E4 Europa albedo images. Can someone accept the challenge of painting Conamara with its true E12 color?
-Bob P. |
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