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Cyber Planets: Building Virtual Worlds to Explore

Posted by timothy on from the real-artifice dept.

core plexus writes "Space.com has an interesting article on 'Cyber Planets': NASA plans to create hundreds of 'synthetic planets' that might represent real worlds orbiting faraway stars. Also tells about the Planetary Finder Mission, and an interview with one of the creators. Doesn't describe what software they're using, though."

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  1. Betcha? by kizarny · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've got ten bucks that says the visible light coronograph beats out interferometry. VLC sounds like an advanced version of the pinhole box (http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/how.html) we used to look at the solar eclipse in elementary school and that's so crazy it just might work.