by iampete » Tue May 20, 2008 5:46 am
Very nice and well-done. The feeling of flying over the terrain at low altitude was exceptional.
However, I see low-res movies like this as more entertainment and eye-candy than as anything having real scientific or educational value. (I realize that high-res movies would be prohibitive from a bandwidth point of view.) Movies are well-suited to present things that are dynamic (e.g., changes in a feature due to erosion).
My personal preference would be to see high-res still images of interesting features that are explained or which contain "stuff" that are not explained but are speculated about.
That having been said, there is room in APOD for both eye-candy/entertainment and for educational/informative stuff as well.
Very nice and well-done. The feeling of flying over the terrain at low altitude was exceptional.
However, I see low-res movies like this as more entertainment and eye-candy than as anything having real scientific or educational value. (I realize that high-res movies would be prohibitive from a bandwidth point of view.) Movies are well-suited to present things that are dynamic (e.g., changes in a feature due to erosion).
My personal preference would be to see high-res still images of interesting features that are explained or which contain "stuff" that are not explained but are speculated about.
That having been said, there is room in APOD for both eye-candy/entertainment and for educational/informative stuff as well.