HiRISE PDS release, Has anyone done anything yet? Options

[Stu]

... and one more...

[nprev]

Wow. Beautiful work, Stu. MRO is making Mars look more & more like Chesley Bonestell's original visions...

[Nirgal]

Its really hard to keep up with the vast amount of HiRise images ...
I'm recently working on some colorizations to keep the "Alien Landscapes" series running




link to the original data:PSP_001816_1410

[Stu]

Welcome back Nirgal! GORGEOUS pic!

[Nirgal]

Welcome back Nirgal! GORGEOUS pic!

Thanks, Stu

One of the most amazing things with the HiRISE imagery is that there are so many interesting detail views waiting to
be discovered among the many many gigapixels ...

For example this one:


original link:PSP_004044_1640

Anyone else want to post their favorite detail MRO views ?

[monitorlizard]

Does anyone know the date of the second HiRISE PDS release? I thought I heard once that releases would be at six-month intervals, so we may be fairly close.

[monitorlizard]

Just to clarify, I see that the HiBlog site mentions that 1200 color images have just been released. These have probably been in the pipeline for quite a while. I was wondering if there would be a forthcoming release of images taken after the first PDS release (June or July?). These I assume would not be fully processed to color images.

[dilo]

One of the most amazing things with the HiRISE imagery is that there are so many interesting detail views waiting to
be discovered among the many many gigapixels ...

Anyone else want to post their favorite detail MRO views ?

Welcome back, Bernhard!
Your pictures are great, but last one, without a scale, is a little disappointing.... (is a MRO or MER MI camera picture? ).

This is my side-by-side comparison of two "Bright Streaks and Dark Fans" pictures taken 4.5 days apart (PSP_002622_0945)

[Nirgal]

Welcome back, Bernhard!
Your pictures are great, but last one, without a scale, is a little disappointing.... (is a MRO or MER MI camera picture? ).

Thanks dilo ... and criticism always very welcome

reminds me of my former idea of augmenting the orbiter-images with a small artificial airplane shadow as a scale.
Will try to include this in future images ...
I found that detail shot quite dramatic with the rugged shadows and the oblique viewing angle ...
and I am actually always looking especially for images/crops taken at late evening or early morning local time for the more dramatic shadows IMO those are the best views that look more like viewed from out of an airplane/helicopter window rather than
a satelite image from orbit

[quote]
This is my side-by-side comparison of two "Bright Streaks and Dark Fans" pictures taken 4.5 days apart (PSP_002622_0945)



Wow ! spectacular! ... I wonder how close the bluish color of the fans comes to the "true perceived" color ...

BTW.: Has anyone already tried "true calbirated" MRO composites (like slinted's great MER calibration work...) ?

[OWW]

I found the perfect landing site for MSL:

http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_004067_1230

Attached thumbnail(s)

 

[djellison]

Bloody hell!

[nprev]

...couldn't have said it better myself, Doug! (Good one, OWW! )

Where is this, anyhow? There are actually many rocks on top of rocks here. Makes the Viking & Pathfinder sites look like city parks by comparison...

EDIT: Duh. Should have looked at your link. Okay, the perimeter of Argyre is not a happy place. The rim of Hellas is probably even worse. Suspect that heavy winds from the diurnal entrance & exit of air into these deep basins scours away most of the soil at the edges, leaving nothin' but rocks...LOTS of rocks.

[Stu]

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.

[nprev]

Stu, only thing I can think of is that the MRO team is neck-deep in accomplishing the nominal mission objectives right now...but, of course, that's kind of pale. Cassini's outreach is occurring during the primary mission, and by comparison it's been outstanding (well, to give credit where credit is due, it's been extremely good in its own right).

Only other thing I can think of is that Mars orbiters have taken a much lower profile in contrast to Mars landers. This is probably a huge mistake to make with an instrument suite as powerful as that of MRO's.

[mcaplinger]

Cassini's outreach is occurring during the primary mission, and by comparison it's been outstanding...

Cassini has an encounter every month or two with not much happening in between. MRO takes more data than a Cassini encounter every day. And frankly, the Cassini images are far easier to pick good ones from, don't you think?

I think it's fair to expect that one or two images from MRO will make it onto most lists of the top space images of 2007. I'm not sure it's reasonable to expect a lot more outreach than that. (Though I am disappointed that most likely none of those images will have been taken by an MSSS instrument this year.)