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The images have been lightly processed to enhance the brightness and contrast. The illuminated disk of Venus is so bright that it is saturated in these images, even using the shortest possible camera exposure time. At the planet’s terminator, some very faint structures are visible, but these appear to be due to ghosting in the camera optics rather than features in the atmosphere of Venus. There is also some horizontal striping in the images due to effects in the electronics.
The gravity assist maneuver was the first at Venus and the second of nine flybys overall, which help steer the spacecraft on course for Mercury. During its seven-year cruise to the smallest and innermost planet of the Solar System, BepiColombo makes one flyby at Earth, two at Venus and six at Mercury to brake against the gravitational pull of the Sun in order to enter orbit around Mercury.
originally posted by: AutomateThis1
Look at that perfectly flat disk with the sunlight only lighting the side facing the sun.
originally posted by: AutomateThis1
Look at that perfectly flat disk with the sunlight only lighting the side facing the sun.
originally posted by: AutomateThis1
a reply to: chr0naut
Obviously the flying spaghetti monster uses it's magic to warp space-time so that the atmosphere and water fold back into itself. That's what causes wind and waves.
Venus doesn't even have it's own sun, so obviously Venus is fake too.
originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: AutomateThis1
a reply to: chr0naut
Obviously the flying spaghetti monster uses it's magic to warp space-time so that the atmosphere and water fold back into itself. That's what causes wind and waves.
Venus doesn't even have it's own sun, so obviously Venus is fake too.
Venus is stealing our Sun!
Just because she has her breasts out, standing on that shell, she'll probably be let off... and the cupid's spitting, what's with that?
originally posted by: gortex
As part of its journey to Mercury BepiColombo took a gravity assist from Venus on October 15th , this is the video Bepi shot of its flyby.
Looks like a another cloudy day on Venus.
The images have been lightly processed to enhance the brightness and contrast. The illuminated disk of Venus is so bright that it is saturated in these images, even using the shortest possible camera exposure time. At the planet’s terminator, some very faint structures are visible, but these appear to be due to ghosting in the camera optics rather than features in the atmosphere of Venus. There is also some horizontal striping in the images due to effects in the electronics.
The gravity assist maneuver was the first at Venus and the second of nine flybys overall, which help steer the spacecraft on course for Mercury. During its seven-year cruise to the smallest and innermost planet of the Solar System, BepiColombo makes one flyby at Earth, two at Venus and six at Mercury to brake against the gravitational pull of the Sun in order to enter orbit around Mercury.
sci.esa.int...
originally posted by: KansasGirl
originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: AutomateThis1
a reply to: chr0naut
Obviously the flying spaghetti monster uses it's magic to warp space-time so that the atmosphere and water fold back into itself. That's what causes wind and waves.
Venus doesn't even have it's own sun, so obviously Venus is fake too.
Venus is stealing our Sun!
Just because she has her breasts out, standing on that shell, she'll probably be let off... and the cupid's spitting, what's with that?
She “has her breasts out?” You must be very experienced.
originally posted by: AutomateThis1
Look at that perfectly flat disk with the sunlight only lighting the side facing the sun.