Voyager mosaics and images of Jupiter, A fresh look at some ancient stuff |
Voyager mosaics and images of Jupiter, A fresh look at some ancient stuff |
Aug 20 2010, 05:47 PM
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IMG to PNG GOD Group: Moderator Posts: 2251 Joined: 19-February 04 From: Near fire and ice Member No.: 38 |
Thanks to modern computers and software the old, 'official' Voyager Jupiter images can be reprocessed into something much better. There is also a lot of Voyager data there that was never processed into color composites and/or mosaics (or at least it has not appeared on the WWW). With proper processing the apparent image quality approaches the quality of the Cassini images but needless to say the wavelength coverage is (vastly) inferior.
I have recently been taking a close look at the high resolution Voyager 1 images, i.e. the images obtained in early March 1979. This is going to result in some new and/or reprocessed mosaics. The first one is now complete and I'm working on another one. The image below is a 12 image mosaic (12 orange + 12 violet + 12 synthetic green images). The images were obtained on March 2, 1979 at a range of 4.3 million km. The first image (C1629045.IMQ) was obtained at 05:09:23 and the last one (C1629131.IMQ) at 05:46:11. The resolution is roughly 43 km/pixel. The raw images were calibrated, reprojected to simple cylindrical projection, mosaicked and then rendered using a typical viewing geometry (there is no such thing as a "correct viewing geometry" because the images were obtained over a 37 minute period with Jupiter rotating). I then fixed the color balance. I still haven't 'standardized' how I process the Voyager color. I wasn't completely satisfied with the color I got using an approach similar to what's described in another thread but I think the color could be improved a bit. The final step was to sharpen the resulting image a bit, mainly to compensate for all of the resampling that the previous processing steps required. This image shows lots of features: The Great Red Spot and one of the three white ovals present during the Voyager flybys, smaller spots, scallopped belt/zone boundaries, gravity waves, a bright equatorial plume and the dusky south polar region. I don't think I'm bragging by saying that this is probably the best Voyager 1 Jupiter mosaic that I know of, mainly because of its size (12 images). I will be posting more Jupiter stuff in this thread in the coming days/weeks, both mosaics and interesting images (and needless to say, others are welcome to post images and mosaics as well). |
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Aug 15 2016, 04:55 PM
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IMG to PNG GOD Group: Moderator Posts: 2251 Joined: 19-February 04 From: Near fire and ice Member No.: 38 |
Mosaic 6. Here several high resolution (~8 km pixel) green filtered images have been merged into a lower resolution color image that Voyager 1 obtained with its wide angle camera:
Range: ~800,000 km from Jupiter's center. Resolution of original narrow angle camera data: ~8 km/pixel. JunoCam, corresponding height above Jupiter's cloudtops: ~14,000 km. About 10 hours before closest approach Voyager 1 acquired three 1x3 narrow angle green filtered mosaics of one of the three big, white ovals that were present in the South Temperate Zone at latitude 33°S during the Voyager flybys. These ovals formed in 1939-1941 and had been shrinking since then. They were named oval BC, oval DE and oval FA. In 1998, ovals DE and BC merged into a single oval that was named oval BE. In 2000, oval BE absorbed oval FA to form what was named oval BA. In 2006, the color of oval BA changed from white to red, similar to the Great Red Spot. It still has a strong, orange color. I'm hoping to see hi-res Juno images of this oval; its 'ancestors' were well imaged by Voyager. This mosaic shows white oval DE. This oval is visible at lower right in this global mosaic of Jupiter. Here is an approximately true color/contrast wide angle context view: And this is an enhanced version of the high resolution mosaic of narrow angle green filtered images that was merged into the wide angle data to produce the color image at the top of this post. A single narrow angle violet image was also obtained showing the oval's southern boundary. This makes it possible to construct a higher quality color view of this area. Notice that at this high resolution (~8 km/pixel) some of the boundaries between cloud features are getting more fuzzy compared to the lower resolution (~24 km/pixel) in mosaic 1. |
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