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High!
Slowing advancing with my PoVSolar project (into which, some distant
day, PoVEarth is intended to be integrated)... after finishing a basic
version of Mars (still without surface relief, let alone atmosphere and
clouds) and its moons, I'm currently working on the moons of the Jovian
system, starting with the four innermost ones, Metis, Thebe, Adrastea
and Amalthea.
The Deimos rendering is based on a topographic map made in 1997 by A.
texture by Philip Stooke
(http://www.solarviews.org/cap/mars/deimoscyl4.htm).
Amalthea was modeled after a topographic map also made in 1997 by A.
its surface color from a Voyager 1 photo of the small moon.
Jupiter's texture is a simple cylindrical projection generated from a
(http://www.mmedia.is/~bjj/data/jupiter_css/index.html).
Also watch my Phobos and Deimos animations:
Flight around Phobos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r77TXrUGl2U
Flight around Deimos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BGi48voGzI
See you on www.khyberspace.de!
Yadgar
Now playing: Openhearted (Real Life)
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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_=27Yadgar=27_Bleimann?= <yaz### [at] gmx de> wrote:
> High!
>
> Amalthea was modeled after a topographic map also made in 1997 by A.
> its surface color from a Voyager 1 photo of the small moon.
Be careful with Voyager photos. The colors, as generally shown to the public,
are wildly exaggerated. I get the feeling that the news outlets alter the
color balance after receiving the images from NASA, bread and circus and all
that. I'm sure the color balance information is available from NASA, but I
don't know how one would go about getting it.
(People look at Jupiter in a telescope, and are surprised to find out that it's
not really bright red, like in the pictures.)
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