Mars rover image wishlist Options

[pgrindrod]

I couldn’t find this anywhere else, so hopefully this is the right place for this request…

I’m aware of many excellent examples of how people here, and elsewhere, have used images from spacecraft, and in particular from rovers and landers.

But if there was a hypothetical rover on Mars in the near future, taking stereo images on a daily basis, and you could help define how those images are released, what would be on the dream wish list for those images, assuming a similar policy to MER and MSL?

So things like: what image format and processing would be best, the preferred type of website/database serving those images up, what metadata is essential/would be good, and anything else that would be useful.

I have also been trying to collate examples of how these images are used, but it would be good to be directed to any cases that people found to be particularly inventive/impressive/useable. Of course, it might not be possible to predict all the ways that images might be used in the future, but having a list of best practices for sharing these images would be useful.

Many thanks for any input people might have.

[JohnVV]

well the mission scientists need first access
but

16 bit depth images ( or the 12 bit raw )
the current and predicted naif spice kernels !!!
-- important for pointing and location data , just look at the thread on celestiamatters about the Jovian and Pluto/Charon mutual events
( http://forum.celestialmatters.org/ )
http://forum.celestialmatters.org/viewtopi...?f=11&t=819
http://forum.celestialmatters.org/viewtopi...?f=11&t=823

as to use of the spice data
just look at the cyclops sire they are using it for the up and coming Cassini images
http://www.ciclops.org/news/looking_ahead.php?js=1
( and the titan posts HERE )