Saturday 31 December 2011

New astronomy software can render astonishing images of earth as what it looked like 240million years ago.

A warm, earthlike planet orbiting a red dwarf star. Mendez's
software lets astronomers enter the data they know about a
planet and then constructs a vision of what it might look like
  • First software that 'renders' 3D worlds based on what we know
  • Draws worlds based on their size, chemistry and distance from star
  • Can render our Earth from historical data 

Astrobiologist Abel Mendez of the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo has designed a software package that can draw real-looking worlds based on the scientific data we receive from space telescopes  - and says Nasa gets it wrong.


Mendez's software package draws planets based on their size, distance from their parent star and chemistry - and can create 3D images that correspond to the data.
The imagery sent out when missions such as Nasa's Kepler telescope find 'exoplanets' - planets outside our solar system - is still imagined by artists. Mendez claims that his approach is more scientific.

A hot exoplanet about the size of Mars

The Scientific Exoplanets Rendereris is designed to generate 'photo-real' images of other planets - and 'draws' its reconstructions using data such as chemicals detected by space telescopes and their size and surface temperature.
Unlike 'artists reconstructions', it's all done mathematically.
Mendez said of Nasa's reconstruction of Kepler 22-b, 'I think that the Nasa image got the color right but I don’t expect clouds like that. It probably will be more featureless like Uranus or Neptune and not so good for a press release.'
Mendez's software is specially designed to reconstruct Earth-like exoplanets, either rocky or ocean in nature, but it is also able to generate visuals for gas giants and stars.
It includes the reconstruction of realistic clouds and weather effects.
A small, cold planet as recreated by Mendez's software. He says that
Nasa's imaginings of planets may not always be accurate
A warm world larger than our Earth. Unlike 'artist's renderings' of planets,
Mendez's software 'creates worlds' based on available scientific information
Earth rendered 240 million years ago - when the continents were still
gathered together into the 'supercontinent' named Pangaea
 

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Saturday 31 December 2011

New astronomy software can render astonishing images of earth as what it looked like 240million years ago.

A warm, earthlike planet orbiting a red dwarf star. Mendez's
software lets astronomers enter the data they know about a
planet and then constructs a vision of what it might look like
  • First software that 'renders' 3D worlds based on what we know
  • Draws worlds based on their size, chemistry and distance from star
  • Can render our Earth from historical data 

Astrobiologist Abel Mendez of the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo has designed a software package that can draw real-looking worlds based on the scientific data we receive from space telescopes  - and says Nasa gets it wrong.


Mendez's software package draws planets based on their size, distance from their parent star and chemistry - and can create 3D images that correspond to the data.
The imagery sent out when missions such as Nasa's Kepler telescope find 'exoplanets' - planets outside our solar system - is still imagined by artists. Mendez claims that his approach is more scientific.

A hot exoplanet about the size of Mars

The Scientific Exoplanets Rendereris is designed to generate 'photo-real' images of other planets - and 'draws' its reconstructions using data such as chemicals detected by space telescopes and their size and surface temperature.
Unlike 'artists reconstructions', it's all done mathematically.
Mendez said of Nasa's reconstruction of Kepler 22-b, 'I think that the Nasa image got the color right but I don’t expect clouds like that. It probably will be more featureless like Uranus or Neptune and not so good for a press release.'
Mendez's software is specially designed to reconstruct Earth-like exoplanets, either rocky or ocean in nature, but it is also able to generate visuals for gas giants and stars.
It includes the reconstruction of realistic clouds and weather effects.
A small, cold planet as recreated by Mendez's software. He says that
Nasa's imaginings of planets may not always be accurate
A warm world larger than our Earth. Unlike 'artist's renderings' of planets,
Mendez's software 'creates worlds' based on available scientific information
Earth rendered 240 million years ago - when the continents were still
gathered together into the 'supercontinent' named Pangaea
 

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