On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:39:44 +1100, Guy Parry
wrote:

VERY nice surface images indeed!!


On 13 Jan 2004 17:13:00 GMT, Andrew Gray
wrote:

Astonishingly, this actually has space history in it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3387895.stm

"Computer researcher Don Mitchell used original digital data from two
Soviet Venera probes that landed in 1975. His reprocessed and
recalibrated images provide a much clearer view of the Venusian
surface..."

His page is at http://www.mentallandscape.com/V_Venus.htm ; the images
themselves seem to be ferreted away somewhere on a page that's 404ing,
but there's a good solid history of the Soviet (and the contemporary
American) program of Venus probes there. I've read parts of it, and
commend it to your attention...

I'm wondering if there's any plans for new probes to the surface of
Venus... with todays advancements in heat resistant alloys etc, a new
probe would be able to gather a magnitude more data, and hopefully for
a longer period of time (even a day/night cycle would be good)

Cheers,
Richard