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Veneras - did you know the Russians landed probes on Venus and took photos? | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 49766927  United States11/27/2017 10:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| Sikhed User ID: 5898996 United States11/27/2017 10:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | did you know the Russians landed probes on Venus and took photos? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 49766927 Lil' Kim has them all beat! [link to twofeed.org] :doom360: |
| gmigriff User ID: 74213563 United States11/27/2017 11:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Better images and an explanation of how the limited tech of the time influenced the choice of imaging: In 1975, Veneras 9 and 10 became the first landers to image the surface of another planet, scanning 180-degree panoramas during the ~ hour that each lander functioned on the surface. 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. 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. [link to www.planetary.org] |
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 49766927 United States11/27/2017 11:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Better images and an explanation of how the limited tech of the time influenced the choice of imaging: Quoting: gmigriff In 1975, Veneras 9 and 10 became the first landers to image the surface of another planet, scanning 180-degree panoramas during the ~ hour that each lander functioned on the surface. 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. 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. [link to www.planetary.org] Those last few photos are great |
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| FarMore User ID: 73826810 United States11/27/2017 11:18 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | did you know the Russians landed probes on Venus and took photos? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 49766927 Lil' Kim has them all beat! [link to twofeed.org]  This is confirmed from NK. There was a previous artists rendition of the landing, but it's been scrubbed from the internet. Creator probably in the gulags, or worse. Last Edited by FarMore on 11/27/2017 11:22 PM Jude 1:4 "For there are certain men crept in privily, even they who were of old written of beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ." |
| gmigriff User ID: 74213563 United States11/27/2017 11:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Pretty impressive, that the Soviets had many failures, and kept at it. [link to www.astronation.science] |
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| gmigriff User ID: 74213563 United States11/27/2017 11:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yeah, no fucking kidding... but it worked a couple of times. Look at it. [link to mentallandscape.com] |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 49766927 United States11/27/2017 11:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Pretty impressive, that the Soviets had many failures, and kept at it. Quoting: gmigriff [link to www.astronation.science] Work ethic of their scientists is great. No discouragement. |
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| jake User ID: 75897521 United States11/27/2017 11:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I wanna play with her venus Evil controls the ignorant... Climate change is a hoax so is the vax you have been fear-porned into compliance! Definition Satan from the bible: Satan (Rev 12:7) exercising his subtle (indirect) impact on heathen governments (powers) – i.e. accomplishing his hellish agenda from "behind the scenes." |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 75898839 United States11/27/2017 11:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yeah, no fucking kidding... but it worked a couple of times. Look at it. [link to mentallandscape.com] Mindbendingly fascinating |
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| gmigriff User ID: 74213563 United States11/27/2017 11:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yes, pretty cool. But why are all the shots of the surface looking straight down? Will search for better examples... Quoting: gmigriff Yes I did know that it wasn't cool. I couldn't have given you the minutes that they functioned in that heat but did remember it to be short. They also underestimated the density of Venus' atmosphere by a factor of 180 early on, which made reentry and the use of parachutes especially failure prone. |
| jake User ID: 75897521 United States11/28/2017 12:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I suppose I could have said i want to probe her Uranus Evil controls the ignorant... Climate change is a hoax so is the vax you have been fear-porned into compliance! Definition Satan from the bible: Satan (Rev 12:7) exercising his subtle (indirect) impact on heathen governments (powers) – i.e. accomplishing his hellish agenda from "behind the scenes." |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 74840431  Puerto Rico11/28/2017 12:13 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] |
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| gmigriff User ID: 74213563 United States11/28/2017 12:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | did you know its possible to take a photo Quoting: Anonymous Coward 71612127 revealing features of like 100 km or something id have to google on the planets of proxima centauri star? using our sun as grav lense ... this isnt sci fi we could do this right now Please "google" and post a link. I want to see. |
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