Reprocessing Galileo Io Images |
Reprocessing Galileo Io Images |
Mar 27 2007, 07:59 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3233 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
The New Horizons images of Io that have come down over the last month have gotten me interested in Io again, and with Galileo images of Io. So I've decided to go back through and reprocess some of the color views of Io, particularly global views. I will post some of the more interesting ones here with the goal of rebuilding at least some of my Io website to host them in the long term.
The first view I'd like to present has a bit of a mystery. This is a two-frame, three-color mosaic of the Prometheus volcano from I27. The filters used are violet (in the blue channel), green (in the green channel), and IR-7560 (in the red channel). This mosaic has a resolution of 170 meters per pixel. I'm still working on the color registration (I'm doing all the present processing in Photoshop, so I hope no one minds). Okay, so what's this mystery? Well, as I was attempting registration, I noticed something funny. I noticed this odd rainbow-colored patch to the southwest of Prometheus Patera. When you flip through the individual color frames, as you can see in the animation linked to below, you can see that this feature is actually a dark feature that moves from southeast to northwest from frame to frame. So what is this feature? The frames are separated in time by about 17 seconds. Could it be an optically thick...chunk in the plume? Any other...sane thoughts? Just thought I would throw this up there. Well, I hope to post additional Io images over the next few days. EDIT: I have uploaded a new version of the Prometheus mosaic and have updated the version in this post. -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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Mar 27 2007, 09:35 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Regarding the mystery question, it might be a dark plume patch. Are you using calibrated images? If so we can rule out flatfield effects on the CCD especially if the dark feature actually isn't static on the CCD but follows the ground features. I assume parallax effect would be sufficient to explain movement of a high plume here?
Regarding the images, nice composites, are you maybe thinking about producing some "true" color ones? They'd be dull, I know, but I'm always interested in an accurate color look. You mentioned IOs color showed high phase angle dependency, is this the effect of the much more pronounced bluish (violet?) regions at higher phases, while otherwise it's a more subdued appearance? -------------------- |
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