From: leech@cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech)
Subject: Re: Virtual Mars
Date: 16 Jan 91 17:10:13 GMT
Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill



In article <14505@milton.u.washington.edu>, frerichs@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
(David J Frerichs) writes:
|>imagine flying over Jupiter... Saturn... Uranus seeing things as the voyagers
|>did or with computer enhancement.  That is something I would like to
experience.

        JPL already does this, as witness "Miranda: The Movie" and a number
of other short features with similarly exciting titles. They use
photoclinometry
to recovery topography from the images. Unfortunately the resolution of Voyager
images is usually many kilometers, so the movies aren't all that impressive.
What is impressive is how *quickly* they can process the data - within a day or
two of receiving the image.
        Jon (leech@cs.unc.edu)
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