Actually, that is a picture of the topography of Venus below its cloud cover. True, Venus usually looks like a featureless white ball; but its surface looks something like what we see here.
I learned it with a few more words, for the purpose of scansion:
Let us worship Aphrodite
very quick and always flighty
always wears a see through nightie
and that’s good enough for me.
you may thank all of those hours of me playing music with Filkers.
Weeellll… Mercury looks a lot like the Moon, minus the lava “seas”. Gray and covered with more craters than a teen before senior prom. This is a picture of Venus, simulated from atmospheric readings that revealed the contours and relative temperatures of surface details beneath the clouds. Kind of like mapping the ocean floor via sonar.
Good eyes, though, folks; Venus usually looks like a rather featureless billiard ball because of the thick cloud cover. We don’t often see this map made from orbital probe telemetry in 2016. I wondered for a few seconds if they’d used a picture of Jupiter’s moon Io, which looks almost like this, before I remembered the Venus mapping mission and looked it up for comparison.
Actually, that is a picture of the topography of Venus below its cloud cover. True, Venus usually looks like a featureless white ball; but its surface looks something like what we see here.
Funny that Earth gets it keep its cloud cover, but Venus is naked…
Well, Venus is often portrayed in the altogether.
“Let us worship Aphrodite,
always fast & flighty.
Never wore her nightie,
but she’s good enough for me.”
I learned it with a few more words, for the purpose of scansion:
Let us worship Aphrodite
very quick and always flighty
always wears a see through nightie
and that’s good enough for me.
you may thank all of those hours of me playing music with Filkers.
Hmm, Venus is hot, and this old picture of Mercury (that right?) should do the trick. Research? Bah! Research is for wimps.
Weeellll… Mercury looks a lot like the Moon, minus the lava “seas”. Gray and covered with more craters than a teen before senior prom. This is a picture of Venus, simulated from atmospheric readings that revealed the contours and relative temperatures of surface details beneath the clouds. Kind of like mapping the ocean floor via sonar.
Good eyes, though, folks; Venus usually looks like a rather featureless billiard ball because of the thick cloud cover. We don’t often see this map made from orbital probe telemetry in 2016. I wondered for a few seconds if they’d used a picture of Jupiter’s moon Io, which looks almost like this, before I remembered the Venus mapping mission and looked it up for comparison.
Yeah, I checked the wiki page after I’d posted and realized I’d been somehow looking at the wrong planet.
my bad.
What a bunch of nerrrds.
LOL!
I freely admit that, with some pride.