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[MiniTES]

Or at least just not in any more press releases or websites, because there are much much better ones? I'll list them with text to spare you the agony of seeing them again:

Full Earth, Apollo 17.
The Viking Mars mosaic with Valles Marineris in the center.
The Voyager Iapetus photo.
The Voyager "colorful Saturn rings" photo.
The Voyager Titan flyby with the orange haze on the right. This one is especially silly since there are fantastic but not-often-reproduced images from Cassini showing tons and tons of haze layers backlit by the Sun.
That Skylab photo with the huge prominence (although this one isn't as bad an offender).
Not that I have a problem with the photo itself, but that first color photo from Spirit is often used as the only photo out of the gazillion from MER. That panorama from Bonneville is also overused.
That ONE image of Ida and Dactyl that you always see- it's always THE SAME ONE. Galileo took lots and lots of photos of Ida and Dactyl and we always get that one with Dactyl in the right of the frame (you know the picture!) .
Similarly, there's always that SINGLE view of Gaspra.
The Halley image used as the only view of a comet nucleus, when we have one set of better images (Borrelly), one set of much better images (Wild 2), and one set of far better images (you know the one).
Pathfinder's "presidential panorama" is used way too much. There was all sorts of neat Pathfinder stuff- superresolution views of the Twin Peaks and such - and we always see the same one.
We never see Viking lander images other than the one panorama from each site.
The set of like 4 photos from Apollo 11's EVA that serve as the photos for any discussion of any Apollo mission, ever. When there are tens of thousands of much more interesting images.

It's a shame since there's tons and tons of cool stuff from these mission that most people never see. And how come we never see Soviet stuff, like Venera lander images? Whenever there's a Venus image it's usually that garish blue Galileo composite.

[djellison]

I'm yet to see a piece of NASA imagery that isnt allowed to be used freely for any purpose, save for the credit "Courtesy NASA/XXX" where XXX is JPL, JHU, Cornell etc etc etc

Doug