[X] My Assistant

[vikingmars]

A friend in France, Editor-in-Chief of a the biggest nationwide Astronomy magazine (the French eq. of S&T in the US), was dreaming about the b&w mosaic posted by JPL :
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/pre.../20040707a.html

He wanted to see it in full color.
He gave me this work as a challenge to test my imaging skills...
Of course, he insisted to see Gusev's rim at the horizon...

Indeed, taken at a local 10:35 am with low opacity of the atmosphere, the images are too much saturated. And the onboard camera computer apparently tried its own compensation left to right !

After many corrections and homogenous transformations, here is the final pan for you to enjoy as wallpaper.

Has anyone obtained better results ?

[Nix]

Thanks I 'artistically' used PS' channel mixer until the color felt right, adjusted white/black point and decreased the overall saturation by about 10%.

Here's the link to numerically derived colors for sol 161
Daniel Crotty sol 161

I hope to get to that level of image processing some day!

I didn't use Daniel's images for this mosaic since as you know, frame #5 (clockwise) lacks the green channel and must be produced synthetically.

Love your work btw and buying your book soon!

Nico