Virtual Viking, Images and animations of the Viking landing sites Options

[vikingmars]

And here a portion of the assembly :

How nice Vanden ! Your work is just GREAT (and thanks for your nice quote).
To help you, here are some versions I made in 2001 extracting the colors from a low-res (BLU, GRN and RED diodes) mosaic and paste them on the b&w hi-res BB3 & BB4 diodes mosaic (one of the versions you know already). For the "Sandy Flats" pic (the one you are working on), was added a low-res BLU diode "sky dynamics" image above the meteorological mast (pic taken earlier).
=> Your results show really good improvements in color quality and paste... Congratulations to you !

[vikingmars]

...And another one, done using the same techniques, and just found in my archives. Enjoy too !

[eoincampbell]

Tremendous, I really dig that last one...
... thanks for posting...

[Vanden]

Thank you for these images and explanations.
I like see "new" images of old missions !!

Here is the complete panorama :

[Guest_Oersted_*]

Wauw! to that complete panorama, new desktop!

[machi]

Finally full size, high-res, color panorama from Viking. Spectacular!

[vikingmars]

... Here is the complete panorama :[url="http://infonetservices02.chez.com/VL1_Cam1_Color_HD.jpg"]

Thanks Vanden : how nice to see my old b&w mosaic now in full colors, thanks to your wonderful work. You did it greeeaaaat !!!
to you !

[Phil Stooke]

A little experiment. This is a super-resolution composite of five HiRISE images of Viking Lander 2.

Phil

[ElkGroveDan]

Wow. That is sharp.

[vikingmars]

When I processed and built the Curiosity dusk panorama
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&p=198007 ,
I knew that a similar imaging experiment was done during the Viking Lander 1 mission.

It was ordered by Carl Sagan himself who was a Member of the Lander Imaging team and who wanted to see how the Martian landscape looked like at dusk...
Here is his panoramic picture taken on Sols 163 and 164 (BB4 diode), fully processed and colorized using the real colors retrieved from images taken at sunset.
A tribute to Carl Sagan and to the Planetary Society. Enjoy !


PS : The darkest band in the sky close to the horizon is real : its shows the shadow of the planet Mars reaching out in space 180° away from the Sun...

[Tom Dahl]

That's a very nice result! Thanks for working on it.

[Phil Stooke]

Very nice, Olivier!

Phil

[vikingmars]

Thanks a lot Phil and Tom for your kind comments.
Now as a tribute to your superb work, here is, fully reconstructed, the famous 1976 "Viking Sunset" picture embedded inside a late-afternoon panorama with colors fully corrected also... Enjoy my friends !

[Ant103]

Ahhh, that's very nice Olivier ! Thanks for doing this work !

With Viking pictures, there is something mythic, legendary, that the other landers on Mars don't have IMHO. We can truely sense the feeling of the wind of exploration, the very beggining of things to come. This is images like these -processed by you Olivier- that gave me chills down my spine, and the envy later to process my own pictures. Thank you for doing this .

[vikingmars]

Many thanks Ant103.
...and here is the famous original painting from Monet and from which the Viking image was made : "Plaine de Chryse, coucher de soleil" seen in the collections at the Marmottan Museum in Paris.



Enjoy !