http://www.esa.int/export/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEM5K681Y3E_0.html
Pretty cool...no highres stuff though.
The images are high quality, but with resolutions of 62 meters/pixel. They still have none of the advertized 2 meters/pixel stuff.
Recently, Emily Lakdawalla posted a couple of http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2016/01270857-wide-views-of-mars-from-mars-express.html from the Mars Express HRSC processed by Justin Cowart. One should note, however, that the http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-images/mars/looking-over-mars-north-pole.html is a laterally-inverted mirror image of the Martian north pole. Also the caption is not fully correct. Acidalia Planitia is not visible, but on the left-hand side (in our world, not through the looking-glass) is western Utopia Planitia, in the upper right-hand corner is the transition to Terra Sabaea, and around the northern polar cap extending southward on the right-hand side is Vastitas Borealis.
Thanks for the spot. I can't do anything about the information on the blog at this point, but I will be sure to correct the image and update my location notes. The confusion came from using the raw HRSC images, which are mirror flipped for some reason. I must have flipped it twice without realizing it.
During 2013 and early 2014, MEX was performing a series of Phobos flybys and Deimos imaging sequences. During these flybys the spacecraft acquired up-close images of Phobos with the HRSC Super-Resolution channel, which is a 1024x1024px imager embedded in the HRSC's pushbroom system. The pointing isn't as smooth as HRSC, but using machi's deconvolution method I was able to increase the sharpness of these images greatly.
Here's a Phobos flyby on June 29, 2014 built from 6 SRC frames:
https://flic.kr/p/DBD1n4
https://flic.kr/p/DBD1n4 by https://www.flickr.com/photos/132160802@N06/, on Flickr
The system has been used to make a good number of Kodak shots, too.
https://flic.kr/p/DiMyy9
https://flic.kr/p/DiMyy9 by https://www.flickr.com/photos/132160802@N06/, on Flickr
(For some reason this one was stubbornly resistant to deconvolution, maybe stemming from the low S/N ratio of the original image?)
https://flic.kr/p/DHzSYw
https://flic.kr/p/DHzSYw by https://www.flickr.com/photos/132160802@N06/, on Flickr
https://flic.kr/p/DiMyu1
https://flic.kr/p/DiMyu1 by https://www.flickr.com/photos/132160802@N06/, on Flickr
Fantastic work!
Also nice to see that Saturn is visibly much dimmer than Jupiter; makes perfect sense given the greater distance from our collective light source, but certainly a contrast with the usual illustrations that show all the planets in the same light when lined up.
I found a couple of HRSC images of frost deposits in the southern hemisphere.
First one is some wilderness area in Terra Cimmera (I couldn't find a named feature for nearly a 100km in any direction)
https://flic.kr/p/CVuZMq
https://flic.kr/p/CVuZMq
And some heavy frost in Hooke Crater (located on the northern rim of the Argyre Basin)
https://flic.kr/p/DT1wzk
https://flic.kr/p/DT1wzk
I've been experimenting more with processing high-altitude HRSC two-color (GB) limb scans. I want to emphasize that these aren't geometrically-controlled or accurate color images. Basically I warp the blue channel image to overlay the green channel image, then partially subtract the blue channel image from the green to come up with a synthetic red channel. Since there's a lot of along-track motion between images, the color of the atmospheric haze structure doesn't come out too well, so I either paint it a single color, or maybe paint individual layers if there's enough color information for it. The shape of the limb is distorted in the original images (usually one half will have a different slope than the other), and this is semi-subjectively adjusted so that the horizon fits the outline of a circle of an arbitrary radius while craters near the bottom of the image are more or less round. So don't wander off and try to use these for science
https://flic.kr/p/WcvCVC
https://flic.kr/p/WyR2vV
https://flic.kr/p/WNHtF6
https://flic.kr/p/VwuiM7
A couple of global shots over Tharsis from the most recent public HRSC release:
https://flic.kr/p/PvFaVa
https://flic.kr/p/PvFaVa
https://flic.kr/p/2bT87ag
https://flic.kr/p/2bT87ag
A couple of south polar views from December '14/January '15 that I stumbled on in the archives:
https://flic.kr/p/RBRWLa
https://flic.kr/p/RBRWLa
https://flic.kr/p/2dZmYXR
https://flic.kr/p/2dZmYXR
Working on a new processing technique for the HRSC limb-scan images. Same process as above, but with a geometric warp (in Photoshop, Arc 80%, with an additional vertical warp component -8%) to account for the off-nadir viewing angle and wide viewing angle (~50 degrees of latitude) of the images. I'm liking the results I'm getting out of this, and I think they're more geometrically accurate (but still not controlled!) so I will likely go back to reprocess the previous limb scans I've worked with in the same way.
https://flic.kr/p/2haMaZj
https://flic.kr/p/2haMaZj
https://flic.kr/p/2haN2Vs
https://flic.kr/p/2haN2Vs
https://flic.kr/p/2haKrq5
https://flic.kr/p/2haKrq5
Wow! Controlled or not that's eye-popping work, especially the last one.
P
A handful of images from the most recent season of collecting global images
https://flic.kr/p/2iXhcNK
https://flic.kr/p/2iXhcNK
https://flic.kr/p/2iXcSyw
https://flic.kr/p/2iXcSyw
https://flic.kr/p/2iY6g9D
https://flic.kr/p/2iY6g9D
The last one is really cool because if you look closely you can see a zigzagging chain of von Kármán vortices downwind of one of the craters:
https://flic.kr/p/2iY25tz
https://flic.kr/p/2iY25tz
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