Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Venus in color and 3D (topographically)

The link below is to just an amazing high-resolution image of the normally cloud-enshrouded surface of Venus, based on data acquired by the miraculous Magellan Orbiter (with help from a couple others):

North polar region of Venus

The link to "Full Size" shows the entire polar region, which is on the verge of astonishing. Ya gotta admire the technology.

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