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Veneras - did you know the Russians landed probes on Venus and took photos?
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[quote:gmigriff:MV8zNzAzNTk3XzY2MjE5MTU0XzY3QUUxOEIx] Better images and an explanation of how the limited tech of the time influenced the choice of imaging: [i]In 1975, Veneras 9 and 10 became the first landers to image the surface of another planet, [b]scanning 180-degree panoramas during the ~ hour that each lander functioned on the surface[/b]. Stacking available data, this is what Venera 9 saw when, on October 22, 1975, it landed. The cameras scanned the scene one pixel at a time, and their lifetime on the surface was short. Given these limits, there were several options. One would have been to image a very narrow area at high resolution from the lander base to the horizon, but that would have been hard to interpret. Scanning from surface to horizon over a large area would have produced an image with such coarse resolution that again, it would have had limited value. [b]They compromised: the camera would scan in a U-shape, meaning that the tips of the panorama would look at the horizon, while the middle would look down ant the base of the lander. [/b][/i] http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2014/0724-standing-on-venus-in-1975.html [/quote]
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