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After watching the video, I feel like there should be software that gets regular updates of planetary surfaces and highlights drastic changes. Probably exists
by gibolt 8y ago
After watching the video, I feel like there should be software that gets regular updates of planetary surfaces and highlights drastic changes.
Probably exists somewhere, but would be neat to see historical changes
- simcop2387 8y agoThe biggest problem with this is getting the images. Projects like the LRO do this already I believe, but most changes are otherwise uninteresting.
- azernik 8y agoWe already do this for the starfield (that's how, for example, most Near Earth Object searches work); it's just harder to get high-resolution total-coverage imagery for planetary surfaces. As far as I understand, we only are getting repeat imagery from the LRO because it did one fast low-resolution pass and is now doing a lower-altitude, high-resolution pass.
- InclinedPlane 8y agoThere are automated systems that monitor the moon for impacts regularly, however they don't watch during a full moon because it's too bright (except during a lunar eclipse).
- A2017U1 8y ago> they don't watch during a full moon because it's too bright Have little knowledge of astronomy but from a photography perspective this is quite amusing, usually it's the opposite problem for many photos.
- ridgeguy 8y agoI'll speculate that NRO and similar agencies have such software. Doubt it's OSS, tho'.
- dotancohen 8y agoIf you can persuade some congressional committee to fund NASA to develop, launch, and maintain the probes then I'm sure you'll find no shortage of people willing to pay the taxes for it all. I happen to agree with you, and would be happy to see taxes allocated towards further exploration of the solar system. But resources are limited.
- geggam 8y agoIf only we got to choose what to pay taxes for...
- ajuc 8y agoIn Poland you can choose one non-profit organization to pass 1% of your taxes for last year. If you choose nothing it goes to the state budget. It's a nice idea, even if some organizations abuse it (they give out free tax-filling software that has their organization hardcoded).
- pawelk 8y agoI wouldn't call this abuse - it's a marketing tactic, and it's rarely hard coded, more likely selected by default - at least that was my experience. Just to add some numbers for perspective. In 2018 there was 763M PLN (~$200M USD) to split among 9000 approved organizations. The largest one got 166M with another 100 orgs getting 1M+.
- baud147258 8y agoIt doesn't work exactly this way in France, but any donation to a registered non-profit gets you a 66% rebate of that amount to your income taxe (within a 20% limit of your taxable income).
- ajuc 8y agoYeah, it's the same in the result, but the barrier of entry is significantly lower (easier to fill 1 field in tax form once a year than to make a payment and then get a refund).