Deep Impact camera data, Messing about with images from the PDS |
Deep Impact camera data, Messing about with images from the PDS |
Dec 28 2009, 07:06 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
I'm wondering if anybody here has spent any time working on the Tempel 1 images from Deep Impact. The data are available at the Small Bodies Node (see e.g. http://pdssbn.astro.umd.edu/holdings/dif-c...0/dataset.html), and Version 2 of the PDS archive (which appears to have been published 3 years ago) includes versions of the data that have been calibrated, cleaned of instrument artifacts, and converted to units of radiance and also I/F. The HRI data have not been deconvolved to remove the blur: a bit of playing shows that without deconvolution, HRI images look pretty similar to MRI images. Attached is a color composite I made of the highest-resolution full-globe shots of Tempel 1 captured by the MRI before the impact. The image isn't big but there's more variety in color than I expected. This is made from the I/F images and is an RGB composite of red, green, and violet continuum filter images, overlaid over a clear image that I sharpened slightly. It's very red, but I think that's real.
Has anybody else worked with these? -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Nov 10 2010, 12:57 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 753 Joined: 23-October 04 From: Greensboro, NC USA Member No.: 103 |
With the blurry view off of the focal center of each photo, one gets the visual impression of very shallow depth of field...and without the contexting photos, it's impossible to judge the scale of the alien landscape. You'd be hard-pressed to say that you weren't looking at a close-up of something you were holding in your hand!
-------------------- Jonathan Ward
Manning the LCC at http://www.apollolaunchcontrol.com |
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