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The view from Everest, A panorama from the world's roof... |
  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... -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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Apr 8 2007, 07:52 PM
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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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Apr 9 2007, 02:16 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 318 Joined: 1-October 06 Member No.: 1206 |
Wow.
Im thinkin what a polar taken from the top of the central peak of the huge basin (is it named?) at Vesta's (south?) pole would be like! Can any one else think of 'extreme viewpoints' that would lend themselves to this kind of (imaginative) treatment? P |
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Apr 9 2007, 07:12 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 117 Joined: 7-December 06 From: Sheffield UK Member No.: 1462 |
The summits of the central peaks of Herschel crater on Mimas and the Odysseus basin on Tethys would provide similarly breathtaking vistas. I think the crater walls will be far below the horizon in each case though.
-------------------- It's a funny old world - A man's lucky if he gets out of it alive. - W.C. Fields.
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