If you recall, in "2010" there is a scene in which a couple of astronauts transfer by spacewalk from the Leonov to the Discovery, which is tumbling end over end (its carousel having long since seized up), and they land on the center section of the spine, which, as mentioned above, is yellow with sulfur ejected from Io's volcanoes. I think there had to have been a close-up model of this sort made for that scene.
(Incidentally, don't you think Clarke and Hyams seriously downplayed the nastiness of Jupiter's radiation environment in the vicinity of Io? I wouldn't go spacewalking around there, that's for sure.)
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Date: 2007-05-03 03:44 am (UTC)(Incidentally, don't you think Clarke and Hyams seriously downplayed the nastiness of Jupiter's radiation environment in the vicinity of Io? I wouldn't go spacewalking around there, that's for sure.)