North Pole Images Options

[dilo]

Only today I discovered these news:
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/SMART-1/SEMLWGW797E_0.html
Images quality is very poor, I tried to improved a little bit throug jpeg artifact removal and dynamic range corrections :

[Bob Shaw]

(Sigh)

Great pix, but why oh why are ESA so incredibly bad at releasing the things? SMART-1 is *allegedly* taking all sorts of images (albeit at relatively low resolution) but it's easier to find forty year old pictures of Mars than current data from the Moon. Surely, the exemplary approach of the US agencies wouldn't be too much of an act to follow - think of the Mars orbiters, NEAR, MER and Cassini, and then think of the paucity of ESA material...

[dilo]

(Sigh)

Great pix, but why oh why are ESA so incredibly bad at releasing the things?  SMART-1 is *allegedly* taking all sorts of images (albeit at relatively low resolution) but it's easier to find forty year old pictures of Mars than current data from the Moon.  Surely, the exemplary approach of the US agencies wouldn't be too much of an act to follow - think of the Mars orbiters, NEAR, MER and Cassini, and then think of the paucity of ESA material...

Yes, with the unique exception of Huygens pictures...
Anyway, as already noticed by someone, Japanese agency is even worst in terms of PR and data publications (the Muses-C asteroid sample return mission is a clear example (nobody knows when exactly will reach the target!)...