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The view from Everest, A panorama from the world's roof...

dilo

Apr 8 2007, 01:21 PM

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Todays' APOD picture (a stitch taken by Roddy Mackenzie in 1989) is so stunning that I decided to make a polar projection, after some corrections.

Look at the dark sky, it really seems a picture from space...

PS: happy Easter to all UMSF members...

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As old as Voyage... As old as Voyager View Member Profile	Apr 8 2007, 07:52 PM Post #2
Member Group: Members Posts: 117 Joined: 7-December 06 From: Sheffield UK Member No.: 1462	Thanks for the post. That is a beautiful image. If the view from 8 km high Everest is THAT good, just imagine the scene when stood atop one of little Iapetus' 25 km high peaks with the white terrian under foot dropping into the dark material far below. You'd feel like you were on top of the entire saturn system! -------------------- It's a funny old world - A man's lucky if he gets out of it alive. - W.C. Fields.

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dilo The view from Everest Apr 8 2007, 01:21 PM

As old as Voyager Thanks for the post. That is a beautiful image. I... Apr 8 2007, 07:52 PM

antipode Wow. Im thinkin what a polar taken from the top o... Apr 9 2007, 02:16 AM

As old as Voyager The summits of the central peaks of Herschel crate... Apr 9 2007, 07:12 AM

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