North Pole Images Options

[dilo]

Only today I discovered these news:
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/SMART-1/SEMLWGW797E_0.html
Images quality is very poor, I tried to improved a little bit throug jpeg artifact removal and dynamic range corrections :

[edstrick]

So far, I'm decidedly underwhelmed by the quality of Smart-1's images. Granted the mission is a major engineering test and a successful one, like Deep-Space-1, but the camera -- at least in what I think are raw data, and if so, why not preliminary decalibrated data -- doesn't seem to be really clean of noise and especially scattered light.

The posting I saw of the north polar region a week ago <one of these same images> was saturated on most of the sun-facing slopes, but the picture data level was well below 255, and the shadow areas were well above 0, and transitions were not all that sharp or crisp.

I don't expect that camera, from what I've seen to really do much significant new lunar science. Nice tourist shots, but....

I hope I'm wrong.