[X] My Assistant

[YesRushGen]

I was just browsing, and here they are!

http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu/view.php?id=183

Although still distant, they are already better than the Voayager 2 views from 1981.

[djellison]

So you need the eye separation to be something like many meters (or many hundreds of meters) to create the correct perspective, which is impossible to do in any way other than take two delayed snapshots using the same camera. In other words, a stereo camera for orbital images would be useless unless it's very very big.

Thats how the MEX one works - one stereo channel is forward looking, one is backward looking.

The backward looking one will see the same bit of surface as the forward looking one a short while ( and many km's ) after it. i.e....


F -> R
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Doug