by Round rock denizen » Thu Mar 18, 2021 12:21 am
Truly, truly remarkable work, really impressive image processing and still squeezing juice from these 30-year old photos from our old steampunk friends the Veneras. The big ugly machines that could, with their vintage Soviet pressure-cooker looks, they did what no other has done since, they were so far ahead of their time.
Mars feels familiar, now, but these rarest of all images with the weird rock patterns still amaze, they feel so alien. The big white sky turns these photos into landscapes at last, and you can feel the lead melting around you (how refreshing). These little whitish patches on the basalt are tantalizing too (please let it be fresh bismuth snow).
And the other one on Don Mitchell's website, the one on the left, from the other landing site...
... on that one the cleft between the two hills, opens into a vista far bigger than anything on the nose-to-the-ground original Venera images. The horizon disappears into heat haze, or shimmer, or refraction, or whatever, but it's not the dirty-aquarium murk of most artist concepts of a Venusian landscape. Those, as in the video posted earlier in this thread, seem inspired by Dante's inferno. This landscape isn't like that. Despite the heat and the pressure, the air is clear and clean. Just clean CO2 and sulphuric acid, you can see forever.
And the shocking yellow color of it all, if you turn on the color. Then it's frankly too much. It's yellowish on Titan too. Are all weird worlds yellow?
Truly, truly remarkable work, really impressive image processing and still squeezing juice from these 30-year old photos from our old steampunk friends the Veneras. The big ugly machines that could, with their vintage Soviet pressure-cooker looks, they did what no other has done since, they were so far ahead of their time.
Mars feels familiar, now, but these rarest of all images with the weird rock patterns still amaze, they feel so alien. The big white sky turns these photos into landscapes at last, and you can feel the lead melting around you (how refreshing). These little whitish patches on the basalt are tantalizing too (please let it be fresh bismuth snow).
And the other one on Don Mitchell's website, the one on the left, from the other landing site...
[img]http://mentallandscape.com/C_Venera_Perspective.jpg[/img]
... on that one the cleft between the two hills, opens into a vista far bigger than anything on the nose-to-the-ground original Venera images. The horizon disappears into heat haze, or shimmer, or refraction, or whatever, but it's not the dirty-aquarium murk of most artist concepts of a Venusian landscape. Those, as in the video posted earlier in this thread, seem inspired by Dante's inferno. This landscape isn't like that. Despite the heat and the pressure, the air is clear and clean. Just clean CO2 and sulphuric acid, you can see forever.
And the shocking yellow color of it all, if you turn on the color. Then it's frankly too much. It's yellowish on Titan too. Are all weird worlds yellow?