Surface pictures of Venus: "As part of a study of the Soviet exploration of Venus, Don Mitchell obtained the original digital data from the first probes that touched down, Veneras 9 and 10. He used up-to-date digital processing techniques on the raw data from those spacecraft, as well as from subsequent Veneras. The results are a dramatic improvement on the images previously released from Veneras 9 and 10."
"No-go, dude. Sure, she's hot, but she's got Veneras 9. That's the one that makes it turn chartreuse before it falls off."
I just have to mention this idiot: Brad Guth.
Another amazing thing is that those landers had lifetimes measured in *minutes*, before they were squished and melted.
like mars, but with bigger rocks and less red tinted light.
I can't wait for our probes to be able to take surface pictures of a planet that doesn't look like a dry riverbed.
So far, our solar system is sucking pretty bad.
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Didn't you learn anything from Hubble? To make this interesting, you have to apply some false color:
ooo... pretty...
i like how it looks like you could walk from end to end since there is no tree or anything to mess up the horizon..
Although it does mean all those TV shows that made alien planets look like a sandpit or quarry weren't far wrong *g*
Every time I see that picture (and it's all over the, hack, wheeze, blogosphere right now) I think, "why is there a giant Band-Aid™ on Venus?"