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[tedstryk]

I have added a page of Galileo images of Thebe to my site.

My site http://pages.preferred.com/~tedstryk/

My Thebe page http://pages.preferred.com/%7Etedstryk/thebe.html

My Amalthea page http://pages.preferred.com/%7Etedstryk/amalthea.html

I can't wait until they begin releasing true raw Cassini images. There should be lots of images of irregular satellites of much better quality than these!

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[tedstryk]

Thanks. One comment I often get is why there is no Venera 14 site. Sad story actually. My Venera 14 stuff was about to go online, and a computer crash destroyed all of it. I am slowly trying to piece it back together (I lost almost everything I had in the way of Soviet raw data and scans, but fortunately people whom I had given copies to were very generous in making me copies of what I had given them!)
I will continue to build the Phobos-2 page. Although there may be a few more Phobos-2 images from VSK, most future posts will consist of thermoscan data, as I have processed nearly the entire VSK set. Phobos-2 was a bit Galileo-ish in that it had a transmitter problem (but lacked Galileo's compression capabilities), so in addition to the VSK being a very limited camera, it also returned very few images. They are just so dramatic. The forms they are usually seen in are so degraded that many people don't realize that. This is not the fault of anti-Russian bias. Rather, it is because the originals released by IKI were very poor. Too much compression, and no attempt to make them visually pleasing.