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[Guest_AlexBlackwell_*]

May 2, 2007, HiRISE release

Some nice imagery of proposed MSL landing sites, which includes one of my favorites: Eberswalde Crater.

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As DataMiner stated, HiRISE has adequate budget for it's needs. The problem is more of time than money. There are some tasks that you simply can't share easily among several people, it's more efficient to be done by just one person at a time. As the saying goes, too many cooks spoil the broth. If too many people were working on the color processing, they could be taking tangents, and in the end, would have to splice everything back together again. It could lead things to become much more complex, and not really accomplish anything. Also, the calibration becomes much easier when you have hundreds or even thousands of images to work with, as we have right now. No amount of ground work can ever fully replace time actually working in it's final configuration, and using that data to help. There can be hundreds of tests done, but only by actually seeing the final product can all of the kinks be worked out. Models work good to find the source of first order problems, but second and third bring variety, and aren't always as easy to find until you see them. Also add the fact of the detector noise that we've seen in some of the CCDs, increased warm up time which creates some image artifacts, and you can see that things get more complex.

Well, I think that's about as much as I can offer on the subject now. The color images are simply waiting for absolute calibration, which takes a while. But I can promise that they are coming.

[Guest_AlexBlackwell_*]

As DataMiner stated, HiRISE has adequate budget for it's needs. The problem is more of time than money.

I guess work has an irritating way of intruding on one's blogging time