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Old 02-August-2005, 12:15 PM
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Default Can someone please post the real pictures of planets

In this thread, can we please have the real picture of our solar systems planets posted.

Please do not provide links, just post them on your post.


Please mention the device the photographed, the date and the name of the object that we are seeing.

Thanks indeed.
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Ummm.....no.

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Old 02-August-2005, 12:29 PM
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If you mean pictures that folks have taken themselves, that's a possibilty. Otherwise may I recommend a search at APOD for your planet picture pleasure. Hot linking images from other sites is concidered bad form and I believe is also a no no on this here board.
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There are considerably more than one.

Plus when you see what has been sent back from Venus, Earth orbit, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, the pictures are very much unreal!

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Check out nineplanets.org

Plenty of photo's there...
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here's Saturn
http://www.universetoday.com/forum/u...1102035844.jpg
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NASA's Planetary Photojournal has all press release images from recent planetary missions, and many from the older mission too.

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Plus when you see what has been sent back from Venus, Earth orbit, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, the pictures are very much unreal!
Very much true. Color photos from planetary probes are generated from monochromatic photos taken through different filters, often beyond the visible light range. So if somone claims the image has true colors, it is more like an approximation, the real view would probably look different.
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In this thread, can we please have the real picture of our solar systems planets posted.

Please do not provide links, just post them on your post.


Please mention the device the photographed, the date and the name of the object that we are seeing.

Thanks indeed.
Why?
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NASA's Planetary Photojournal has all press release images from recent planetary missions
Wow, thanks for that link, I had never seen that site before and it is amazing. Especially all the Cassini images.
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Ummm.....no.

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What he said.

Apologies for being a stick in the mud, username24, but your hit-and-run postings have become quite tedious.
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In this thread, can we please have the real picture of our solar systems planets posted.

Please do not provide links, just post them on your post.


Please mention the device the photographed, the date and the name of the object that we are seeing.

Thanks indeed.
To what purpose? If you can view these pages, surely you can view any number of websites and pages that have pictures of Solar system objects.

Are you wanting a reference posting for yourself and others on the BABB? I don't think that's necessary. Some of the already mentioned sites are already done and done well.

Why do you want pictures of the planets posted on the BABB?

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^^^

What he said.

Apologies for being a stick in the mud, username24, but your hit-and-run postings have become quite tedious.
*sigh....I guess we'll never know if he actually got any use out of this thread.

Thanks for some of the links btw, at least this thread has been usefull for me.

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*sigh....I guess we'll never know if he actually got any use out of this thread.
It doesn't matter.

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Thanks for some of the links btw, at least this thread has been usefull for me.
That's the point. It doesn't hurt to answer, because the one who asks isn't the only one who reads the answers.
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