Incidentally I've been getting more into stargazing recently and seen Venus a few times this month and light from her surface should be bright and clear for anyone in the northern hemisphere on a clear night at the moment ✨
Even if it's bright you can still see cool stuff, and maybe even do a road trip one time. Still, Venus is an easy target from a light-polluted city with a cheap telescope, you can see the crescent, it's very very cool.
Just don't waste money on a huge telescope if you stay in the bright area!
Oh, Walz is one of those governors who make you regret term limits. He’s done a lot for us and I’m said that we couldn’t share him with the rest of the country.
Any how some of the best sky you can find for stargazing. voyagers and BWCA included.
Thank you so much for sharing this. This is what I needed to see right now after all the drama with Trump. I was ready to log off for the day from exhaustion. This reminded me that there is something so much bigger and wonderful out there. 🫶🏻
Truly, Truly Lovely 🥰
And Quite Remarkable,
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But… 🤔…
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The Soviet 🚩 Photos 📸
From the 1970’s & ‘80’s were clearer AND from Venus’s Surface…
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Clearer but not as pretty!
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It's such shit that no one wants to send the same your of awesome equipment with high resolution cameras, etc to the inner 2 planets but always sends them to the outer.
Beautiful close up! Venus is near Belt of Orion in the night sky now. It spends 9 months at a time being the "morning star" then 9 months being the "evening star", hence it's association with fertility.
It is one miracle after another, this period of seeing our solar system. Truly, technical excellence. The effort is one small step in the widening of a view. Humanity is so self-destructive yet profoundly motivated to know. Like there are two human species in a contest. Thinking vs reaction.
No. And it's pretty heavily edited here. All of the images of Venus taken by this probe use synthesized false color. Also, they lost contact with the probe early last year and declared end of mission in May.
So beautiful. I am a big Venus fan. I do believe that is the better colonization target than Mars given a thick atmosphere and Earth-like gravity. Of course it requires aerostat habitats which will be technically difficult, but that is solvable. Low Mars gravity isn't solvable.
You may regret asking as I have written an ungodly number of articles on Venus colonization 😜 Short answer. 56 km above the surface temperature and air pressure is at Earth level. Hence if we use aerostats to float at altitude it works. Air is lifting gass
I am not really imagining space colonization as a replacement for Earth but more like pushing the boundaries: Exploration, science etc. Long term a space industry has economic benefits to Earth. Asteroid mining and in orbit assembly of satellites, space craft etc.
That is a false dichotomy. Most of these interests are not competing with each other at all. The expenses to space exploration is totally dwarved by spending on makeup, alcohol, cigarettes, fast food, gambling and a million other wasteful activities we engage in. Space has bigger ROI than that.
I think you overestimate technical challenges and underestimate political ones. Building a rocket that goes to space is a much easier problem than say solving corruption in Russia. Technology problems are easier than human problems. And Earth is seeing resource depletion we cannot easily fix.
It is covered in my article. 3.5% of atmosphere on Venus is Nitrogen. But I guess you would organize your economy around what is most easily accessible materials. Water and CO2 is easy, so plastics and plants will dominate. Metals much less so.
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Just don't waste money on a huge telescope if you stay in the bright area!
Crescent Moon and Venus together in the sky with the naked eye is still one of the best sights though.
Crescent Venus also simple but equally stunning.
Dress warm :) (it’s currently -7 f, -21c)
minus 17, on its way to, ugh, -22.
Why are we here?
Any how some of the best sky you can find for stargazing. voyagers and BWCA included.
And Quite Remarkable,
.
But… 🤔…
.
The Soviet 🚩 Photos 📸
From the 1970’s & ‘80’s were clearer AND from Venus’s Surface…
.
Clearer but not as pretty!
.
Kidding
Would love to see a zeppelin-type probe on Venus that just bopped around the upper atmosphere, though. I bet there'd be some amazing visuals.
I'm stealing this
knew to look where we can't even see?
Boticelli's "Birth of Venus".
It was an escape pod. My ship crashed into the sea.
I really need to get better at flying.
https://www.planetary.org/space-images/venus-lower-clouds
For added context, this is most likely the photo used for these edits.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/clearest-image-ever-taken-of-venus/
None of the other planets are at all practical. We live on a really good one, I think we should fix up ours. 👍
https://erik-engheim.medium.com/why-colonize-venus-instead-of-mars-c490d14c0531
But we live with rationed everything and all activity has to come from a surplus of agriculture.
Do we ignore the need of billions to satisfy an idea?
We can dream
Politically, we can't live here. How the hell could we live there??
Comets, asteroid mining, or borrowed from Earth?
It's a fascinating topic to me.
But my main point still stands. There is no Planet B.
DUM DUM DUHHHH!
Beautiful.
Other planets are insane.
Blue used to be the “color for girls” and boys had pink. That swapped and now we’re in this dumb timeline.