Astronomy / Space Looking at Venus in a different light

[Para Handy]

Looking at Venus in a different light

Here are some stunning images of Venus from the Japanese Venus Climate Orbiter probe Akatsuki:

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2018/0116-a-new-look-at-venus-with-akatsuki.html

an example:

I think they are very interesting.

 

[Shadowdancer]

Now if someone could schlep a calibrated camera there and take some VIS snapshots, that'd be grand

 

[lokvette]

Thats some nice pics

 

[Patrick_68000]

Beautiful pictures here. Thanks for the share

 

[Para Handy]

Now if someone could schlep a calibrated camera there and take some VIS snapshots, that'd be grand

I assume you mean true / natural colour images. The problem is surely that it is a very bland, almost uniform grey (not even 50 shades ) so to get detail of what the atmosphere is actually doing the use of different wavelengths is necessary.

e.g. This is from Hubble:

I remember at a BAA meeting years ago (early 90's), buying a VHS tape of simulated flyby over the surface using (then) newly obtained radar topological info from Magellan. Those were the days of buying 3.5" discs with zipped-in-parts raw astro images (FITS) and also spending hours on AMPRNET downloading multiple part files just to get raw image data which then ran overnight in a single processing job - before I had the luxury of a maths co-processor in my 386 machine. Amateur astronomers today would take 30 minutes to do what was a few days hobby time for us back then.

[where is it]

 

[Manticore]

Looks like Hubble has been ripping of planet textures pre-ED 3.0.............

[video=youtube_share;a4cyOidePGQ]https://youtu.be/a4cyOidePGQ[/video]

 

[Para Handy]

Looks like Hubble has been ripping of planet textures pre-ED 3.0.............

https://youtu.be/a4cyOidePGQ

That video is a timely reminder that the UK does it's Eurovision song selection this weekend.


P.S. I prefer the Bananarama version.


[video=youtube;d4-1ASpdT1Y]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4-1ASpdT1Y[/video]

 

[Manticore]

Bananarama............

Now there's an act I haven't even thoguht of in many a ong day.

As for Venus: That Japanese image is stunning. I can only hope that that nation takes some inspiration from the success of their unmanned probes and gets their own manned spaceflight program together.

Yeah; thanks for posting!