The power of HiRISE |
The power of HiRISE |
Dec 1 2008, 10:49 PM
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There was some concern before that HiRise's resolution would actually be greater than the Mars atmosphere would allow due to twinkling. Has anyone taken a look at that again? What's the new maximum theoretical resolution from orbit? Less than 5cm? I don't know the exact numbers but from looking at many hundreds of HiRise image it does "feel" like the highest resolution level indeed lacks some of the "crispness" of the larger scale zoom levels ... don't know if this is due to atmosphere twinkling or other optical and/or image processing effects though .... |
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Dec 2 2008, 09:08 AM
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Dec 2 2008, 02:44 PM
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The reported degradation of the camera has been found to be minimum in past discussions; see, for example:
That is a large exaggeration. Channel 1 of IR10 almost has completely stopped working, but channel 0 is working just fine. Looking at the articles that have been posted, I would point you to the space.com article and state that it seems to be the most informative and accurate, except for it's title. Quoting two parts of it which are totally true: QUOTE In late November 2006, the HiRISE team noticed a significant increase in noise, such as bad pixels, in one of its 14 camera detector pairs. Another detector that developed the same problem soon after MRO’s launch in August 2005 has worsened. Images from the spacecraft camera last month showed the first signs of this problem in five other detectors. QUOTE That warming, McEwen told SPACE.com, is sufficient to reduce the HiRISE problem to minor dropouts—easily interpolated—in RED 9, and no problems at all in other charge couple devices within the instrument except an infrared receiver channel (IR10 channel 1), where instrument specialists first saw this problem after MRO’s blastoff from Florida in August 2005. These two statements are 100% correct. Just thought I'd point that out. and http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0708/26mro/ "Alfred McEwen of the University of Arizona, Tucson, principal investigator for the camera, said, "I'm happy to report that there has been no detectable degradation over the past five months." " "McEwen said, "Given the stability we've seen and understanding the nature of the problem, we now expect HiRISE to return high-quality data for years to come." " yay! Steve M |
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Dec 10 2008, 02:39 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
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Dec 10 2008, 04:18 PM
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Dec 11 2008, 08:46 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
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Dec 11 2008, 09:01 PM
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The camera developed a fault not long after science operations began. There has been an obvious deterioration in image quality as a result - images are much grainier and not as crisp. Look at this first picture obtained of Spirit at Home Plate Many of the recent images are very noisy indeed. Others however, are still very good. This image of Gusev was taken just three months ago. http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_010097_1655
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Dec 11 2008, 10:20 PM
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AFAIR the noise problem was present only in some of the CCDs in Hirise's CCD array. Also the problem was remedied somewhat by warming(?) the CCDs.
I think the atmospheric conditions on Mars play a bigger role. That could be seen in some of the images taken during the major dust storm around rovers' regions. -------------------- Antti Kuosmanen
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Dec 21 2008, 07:09 PM
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Inbetween writing Christmas cards and eating mince pies today I've been playing about with the wonderfully addictive website http://global-data.mars.asu.edu that lets you explore Mars through the eyes of spaceprobes from Viking to MRO. I like just dipping in at random, playing a kind of "martian lucky dip" if you like, and seeing what turns up. I just found something interesting... well, I think it is.
Image http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_005665_1800 is entitled "Change detection in Dark spot", so I thought it was worth a look... change is always a good thing on Mars, after all... into IAS Viewer and fine, looked just like one of those "fresh impact craters" to me - a dark "splash" of colour on a bright background. Zoom - and yep, right in the centre there's a small cluster of craters. But that's not what caught my eye - what made me go "hmmm" were the many dark lines and trails coming off the terrain around it. There are hundreds of them! I'm just puzzled what I'm seeing... this isn't a polar area, so the light terrain can't be frost- or snow-covered, yet it looks like something is coming out from underneath a surface layer..? Anyway, just thought it was interesting - note: not odd, interesting! - and wondered if anyone has any thoughts about it. HiRISE. What a fantastic camera! -------------------- |
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Dec 21 2008, 07:11 PM
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Stu, do those lines appear throughout the region or just in the immediate proximity to the new craters?
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Dec 21 2008, 07:16 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Stu, do those lines appear throughout the region or just in the immediate proximity to the new craters? Best to take a look yourself Dan... they're more common close to the craters I think, but not exclusive to the immediate area. -------------------- |
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Dec 21 2008, 09:27 PM
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They look like ordinary dry dust avanches.
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Dec 21 2008, 09:28 PM
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Fascinating, good catch, I'm looking forward to finding out what on Mars it is...
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Dec 21 2008, 09:37 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
They look like ordinary dry dust avanches. Exactly what I thought... wasn't suggesting anything else... just thought it was an interesting area and thought others might think so, too. Still a bit puzzled by the process tho... there are an awful lot of them, and they do look like they're coming from beneath a surface layer of some kind, to my eye at least. But I'm no geologist, obviously. -------------------- |
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Dec 21 2008, 09:58 PM
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Me neither.
But I don't see any layers. To me, it looks like they all begin at the top of the 'plateaus'. |
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