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A Snapshot of the Plot of the Inner Solar System

Posted by michael on from the got-rocks? dept.

BawbBitchen writes "The BBC is running an interesting story about a bunch of Astronomers who have produced a snapshot of the Solar System as of 26 July 2002. Here is the full image and here is a 5.1MB animated GIF (each frame is 961 x 961 pixels) of the map. The credits say it was generated on an OpenVMS system using the PGPLOT graphics library and the animation was done on a RISC OS 4.03 system."

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  1. impressive by tps12 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    OpenVMS and RISC-OS in the same article. I think we've met the mention of an obscure operating system quota for today. And barely past noon, at that. Good work, everyone.

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