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Each planet of our solar system represented by one best shot ever taken
Mercury
Received from NASA’s Messenger Spacecraft, This Is The Most best shot ever taken of Mercury. It was compiled most recently, February 22, 2013.
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Venus
This is a slightly older shot from the 1996 Magellan mission. is he been in orbit since 1989, but this is one of the best shots taken them for the entire flight. Dark points on the entire surface of the planet – these are traces of meteorites, and the largest light part in the center is Ovda Regio, a massive mountain range.
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Land
40 years after the publication of the famous photograph “Blue ball “, which showed what our planet looks like from space, NASA released this updated version photographed by satellite “Suomi NPP”.
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Mars
In the case of Mars, we should go back to 1980. Recent advances in Mars exploration have given us many super detailed shots of this planet, but they are all taken from close distances or now completely from the surface. And this shot again in the form of “Marble ball” – one of the best in history Red planet. This is a mosaic image taken from orbital module “Viking 1”. The crack in the middle is Valles Marineris, a huge canyon running along the equator of the planet, one of largest in our solar system.
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Jupiter
The best picture of Jupiter was obtained, believe it or not, with flying past the Cassini probe in November 2003 that flew actually to Saturn. Interestingly, all that you are here you see, it’s actually a cloud, not the surface itself the planet. White and bronze rings are different types of cloud. cover. This shot stands out because these colors are very close to to what the human eye would actually see.
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Saturn
And when the Cassini probe finally reached its point destination, he took these extraordinary pictures of Saturn and his moons. This photo was compiled from pictures taken in Saturn’s equinox in July 2008, mosaics of 30 images taken over two hours.
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Uranus
Poor Uranus. In 1986, when Voyager 2 passed the first “ice giant” on his way outside the solar system, he looked nothing more than a green-blue sphere without any special will accept. The reason for this was the methane clouds that make up the top layer of the frozen gas atmosphere of this planet. There is an opinion that somewhere below them there are water clouds, but no one can say for sure.
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Neptune
The last planet that is a planet in terms of scientists, Neptune was discovered only in 1846, and even then it was opened thanks to mathematical calculations, not observations – changes in the orbit of Uranus led astronomer Alexis Bouvard to the assumption that there is another planet behind it. And this picture not very high quality, because Neptune was visited only once, probe “Voyager 2” in 1989. It’s hard to imagine what actually happens on this planet – the temperature on it is slightly higher absolute zero, the strongest winds in the Solar blow on it system (up to 2 thousand kilometers per hour), and we have a very vague an idea of how this planet generally formed and exist.
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Pluto
Yes, Pluto is a “dwarf”, not an ordinary planet. But we we cannot leave it unattended, especially for the reason that this is the last major celestial body in our solar system – which also means that we have very little information about how he looks and what happens there. This is computer generated image based on photographs of the Hubble telescope; color synthesized based on assumptions, and the surface of the planet is not necessarily blurred because we really don’t even know at what does she look like.
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