re: Vostok
Not to mention it was a *night* IR image. The brightness levels are showing temperature -- the features are due to differences in thermal inertia, not differences in illumination due to slope differences.
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Not to mention it was a *night* IR image. The brightness levels are showing temperature -- the features are due to differences in thermal inertia, not differences in illumination due to slope differences.