Here's a 2006 news story about Don Mitchell's processing of data from old Soviet Venus missions. Amazing stuff. "Mitchell obtained the original data from the t

Here's a 2006 news story about Don Mitchell's processing of data from old Soviet Venus missions. Amazing stuff. "Mitchell obtained the original data from the two landers with the help of the designer of the Venera cameras, Yuri Gektin.... By calibrating a new camera function, Mitchell was able to tease out many of the very dark and very light regions caught by Venera cameras — details not brought out in the original Russian photo reduction work. This process revealed, at least in the case of Venera-13, hazily seen distant hills." http://www.nbcnews.com/id/14786868/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/soviet-era-venus-images-get-new-life/#.VPCFVFPF_jZ http://www.nbcnews.com/id/14786868/ns/technology_and_science...