No problem. Your map is great. I really need to work on my Ariel mosaic when I get the chance - the one from the highest resolution color set. The other thing I want to work on is the Titania set - there are some great images I haven't processed.

I have been working on the Venera images a bit more. Some of these are on my blog, but this is my latest project. Thre are some problems. The left hand pan has really bad color data (and I mean by Venera standards, where even good is pretty bad). Also, some areas are covered by a color mast because no color data was available.

I have also worked on my Miranda images. To the right is the super-res Miranda global color image, which I have influenced a bit with OGV data from farther out. On the left is a colorized global wide angle view during the near encounter. I think setting the images up like this puts things in perspective.

To be honest, the more I let OGV influence the image, the more I get this -



A bluish Miranda. I am not sure why.

Amazing stuff - I am just floored by your images, especially the Venera one. That pano really makes it seem you are standing right there on the surface of Venus; nice overview. I've got to keep reminding myself that the conditions there are so totally inhospitable, and those rocks are rocks on Venus. Wow.

Airbag

Thanks. I have worked a bit more on Miranda. I have tried to assemble the global mosaic avoiding reprojection when ever possible. This is what I have so far, but there are still some serious problems.


I also did this one, of the one sliver that really seems to be improved by super-res processing (because it is covered by three sharp images).

I can understand that, for sure. Look how lumpy that dirty iceball is!

Can you identify that on the global view, please?

Ta!

Here you are!

My big problem with reprojection on a world like Miranda is that you end up with artificially smooth limbs unless you have a terrain model good enough to reproject on to. And that still quite difficult to do convincingly.

You should contact Paul Schenk at LPI (here's his webpage) about terrain models. He's done a lot of work deriving topography of icy sats and is a nice guy.

Emily

Here's a wee treat from 1968. We have just been enjoying Spirit's hilltop panorama, and this is another view of some nice hilly scenery.



It is Surveyor 7's view of its northern horizon. I scanned the individual images from photo hardcopy at LPI and mosaicked them by hand, adjusting the tones locally to get the best seamless effect.

I will be away for almost all of September. I hope nothing happens while I'm away. Sadly this long planned trip means I have to miss the big lunar conference in Toronto in September. Will anybody be there to report on it?

Phil

I have seen his work and am an admirer. But many others have done this mosaic with a lot of reprojecting. That is why I am trying to do it without...just to see what I can get.

I love that image! By the way, I mentioned a while back that I might be getting some new Soviet Zond and Luna imagery. My reference librarians tell me that they are close to finding what I was looking for. My fingers are crossed (I now have two reference librarians (not just the part time assistants that are usually fine for finding things) working on the issue).

That is remarkable, Phil. It's the way I've always wanted to see that particular vista. And I'm struck by the fact that an Apollo J mission would have had no particular problem operating in such an area -- there are abundant patches of relatively flat terrain suitable for landing a LM, and I don't see any slopes that an LRV would have had problems with. It wouldn't have been any harder to carry out a J mission here than it was at, say, Descartes.

-the other Doug