HiRISE PDS release, Has anyone done anything yet? |
HiRISE PDS release, Has anyone done anything yet? |
Jun 6 2007, 06:37 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 345 Joined: 2-May 05 Member No.: 372 |
Has anyone played around with the HiRISE PDS release images yet? More specifically, color images? I have no time to do anything.
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/pds_release.php http://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/Missions/MRO_mission.html |
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Dec 17 2007, 11:38 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Can I ask something that's been on my mind for a while? Is anyone else out there wondering why the good folks behind the MRO mission aren't making more of its images? Or taking... oh jeez, how do I put this without sounding ungrateful... more exciting, more stimulating images?
I mean, looking at that picture up there I thought, like Doug, "B****y hell!!" Look what it can do! That detail! But every week - at least for the past couple of months or so - I've gone to the MRO site on New Release day, looked at the images and although I haven't thought "So what?" I have thought "Hmmm... ok...". Nothing has really grabbed me, not like in the early days when every pic made me shake my head with disbelief. Lots of pictures of polygonal structures at the poles... strange layering here and there... dunefields... all very interesting scientifically, I'm sure, and very useful for planning further missions certainly, but nothing startling, nothing hypnotic for people not directly involved in the field. I am NOT putting down MRO, no-one suggest that I am, please. But I do know that while this mission had me almost rabid with expectation and excitement in the days just after landing now I find myself getting a little ho-hum about the images being released. I think they're just too large scale. I'd love to see extreme close-ups of surface features, showing more familiar scales. I know anyone with a decent broadband service and a good PC etc can do that for themselves if they download and peruse the images at their leisure, but there must be many, many people like me who are still on dialup who are using less-than-state-of-the-art PCs who would love to be able to see images like the ones OWW and Nirgal posted above. Again, I'm not disrespecting MRO or anyone behind it. I just think that OWW's pic shows the real capability of the camera, and that, perhaps, more could be made of it. The most amazing images for me have shown crumbling cliff faces, mesas casting long jagged shadows, things like that. I think we need to see more of those - and if they're already on the pictures, then dramatic features like those need to be zoomed in on and posted as pictures in their own right. Not criticising. Just a little frustrated. -------------------- |
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Dec 21 2007, 05:51 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 28 Joined: 27-October 06 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 1292 |
Can I ask something that's been on my mind for a while? Is anyone else out there wondering why the good folks behind the MRO mission aren't making more of its images? Or taking... oh jeez, how do I put this without sounding ungrateful... more exciting, more stimulating images? Hi Stu, HiRISE now has around 1500 color images released, something like a third of a Terapixel in RGB color. I've only looked at a small fraction, but it is mind-blowing. I had my desktop display set to show a random chunk from a random each, updated every two minutes, but had to turn it off, because so frequently I was stopping to copy the image into a favorites folder and not getting any work done. :-) We worked hard to get the color processing automated (better late than never!) and further improvements are in the works (stretches that saturate less pixels, better color band co-registration). There had been great interest in this data on this forum early on! |
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Dec 21 2007, 07:58 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1229 Joined: 24-December 05 From: The blue one in between the yellow and red ones. Member No.: 618 |
I had my desktop display set to show a random chunk from a random each, updated every two minutes, but had to turn it off, Aaaarrrgghhhhh! (...turns chartreuse with envy...) How big a bribe would it take to get you to turn it back on and feed it through the web? (I'd be happy to knit you a monitor cozy, so you wouldn't be distracted... ) -------------------- My Grandpa goes to Mars every day and all I get are these lousy T-shirts!
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