• Marternus@discuss.tchncs.de
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    14 hours ago

    I didn’t know about it. I thought it must be impossible to have an image that was shot in a 450° hot sulfuric acid cloud that looks like normal rocks. It’s unbelievable.

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      14 hours ago

      Iirc, the probe lasted half an hour before being destroyed. It’s an astonishing achievement to have sent back those pictures.

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        13 hours ago

        That sounds right. I recall that one of the probes had a camera that was able to take a series of images like a video. But the video visually degraded with every shot it took after opening the lens cap. The effect was like watching a movie as the projector film starts to melt.