Re: USSR space triumphs

On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:14:05 GMT, "Candy Har" <candy@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

http://www.mentallandscape.com/V_Venus.htm

very informative.

Yes, that is a great site with lots of info.

One of my favorite pages that I stumbled upon quite some time ago is:

http://www.mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htm

This shows various reprocessed images of the Venusian surface. Mr.
Mitchell apparently recently added the perspective image mosaics which
are very cool:

http://www.mentallandscape.com/C_Venera_Perspective.jpg

Even if the images are limited, I find it amusing that the Soviets
were able to get better surface images from the Venera spacecraft than
obtained with the Huygens lander on Titan decades later.

I'm sorry, but the quality of the Huygens' Titan pics were a huge
disappointment to me. We couldn't afford a better camera on Huygens?

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Michael McCulloch
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