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[MizarKey]

Thanks to Ustrax in this post , I've had a chance to see some of the Russian images I've never seen.

It looks like they had some problems with stitching or something. Note these two:

February 25 program 4 image 8Z


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February 26 program 5 image 12Z


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Same approx. area, one has a folded landscape on the left, the other has an old crater...right hand side appears to be the same though. I don't know if there's a way to find out where this area is to compare it to MOC images...

[Phil Stooke]

4th Rock said "The strange thing is flying a image scanner to Mars and use it on onboard film prints and not
to image the planet itself!"

Not the same kind of scanner! The film negatives were scanned using a narrow light beam, scanned across the film in a raster, measuring the attenuation of light by the varying opacity of the negative. That isn't the same as a scanning camera that could image Mars.

Phil

[4th rock from th...]

Ok, I understand that, I was just thinking out loud about old technology and it's limitations. It was more of a "what if" question.

Here's a new Mars 5 mosaic, merging the previous results with wide angle images and color compositions. Data from the last 2 imaging sessions was used as base map for the high resolution images.



The image is big so that the highres images keep some quality.

Seen like this, I think that Mars 5 did get very good images ;-)