Distant vistas, Endeavour, Iazu, and beyond Options

[Tman]

Oh my, Astro0, it looks so tempting real!

Maybe it would be better to note on it that it is not dedicated for navigation and demonstration purposes

[eoincampbell]

I still believe (untill we get closer...)
...something about the artistic interpretation that gives me that Mars chill!
thanks again for posting,
Eoin

[centsworth_II]

I don't know how keen I am on making details where there aren't any. Just sort of defeats the purpose I think...

Not if the purpose is to create a piece of art.

[brellis]

There's an intangible quality to great photo processing for me -- it makes me feel like I'm there, flying over or driving by.

For my taste, there's something too slick about the Mars Express images as presented to the public, whereas the massive stitching work and color enhancement of HiRISE and MER images as done by UMSF folks puts me in the landscape. It feels grittier, more realistic.

Thanks for the great work!

[Stu]

I don't know how keen I am on making details where there aren't any. Just sort of defeats the purpose I think...

The purpose of that pic was clearly to illustrate the theme and feelings of a rover-huggy poem, not to illustrate a scientific text book. Astro0 makes it very clear that it's not an accurate simulation, more of an artistic impression. This isn't new, of course; "pioneer artists" like Albert Bierstadt painted the sunsets and landscapes of the "West" in almost migraine-inducing colours, shades and tones, and enhanced in ways that took them far away from being "realistic" but their purpose was to inspire, excite and beckon the folks back home and make them want to see those places for real. This is what modern space art does, too. I think Astro0's Endeavour Hills image is a genuine piece of space art, and I love how it goes with my scribblings!

This forum is crammed full of 'vertically stretched' pictures, 'enhanced' pictures, 'tweaked' pictures, etc, as well as accurate mosaics, panoramas and colourisations. I think there's more than enough room for both sides of this.

[djellison]

And this is me drawing a line under that debate


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[ustrax]

Here is a crop from the full-res version.

[fredk]

There was a superres sequence of W-SW Endeavour rim/Iazu blanket on 2239. Here's an average of all 16 registered L6 frames. No processing:

Here it is with 3x vertical stretch:

Wow. The rim is really looking like a real place now, not just a noisy, hazy outline! On the right part of the Endeavour rim, we can actually see how parts (the dark bits) are facing the inside of the crater. And that dark spot on Iazu is a small crater, that you can see on James' inverse polar map.

[Astro0]

Wow fredk! Now that's what I call REAL art!!!

Superb processing.

[fredk]

Leveled and slightly contrast tweaked versions:


As clean as these look, just imagine what jpl will produce with a proper super-res treatment of the original raw images! Hopefully they'll put out a public release of this soon...

Edit - I forgot to add that the near horizon has dropped substantially in this latest view - we've never seen so much of the rim before. Can't wait to see other parts of Endeavour/Iazu...

[Tesheiner]

Wow, we can almost touch those hills!

[ngunn]

Splendid versions fredk, and a great observation choice MERfolks. I look forward to the official version of course, but in the meantime thanks in advance to whoever may decide to add a touch of colour.

[marswiggle]

While there are more qualified image-mages (than me) around here, I just couldn't resist stealing Fred's superb super-res image and combining it with the R1 image (similarly stretched) into an anaglyph, in 2 x original size. Sorry for the tilt, but I've adjusted it so that you can correspondingly tilt your head slightly to the right for an optimal viewing experience. Hopefully the red-blue colours will also bring about somewhat magical effect.

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[Bill]

Any idea of what we are seeing here (black spot) ? A distant crater ? A new rock ?

[nprev]

See this post by fredk, Bill; apparently a small crater on Iazu's rim.