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Jan 30 2008, 08:06 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
I'd like to see the REAL true colors of Mercury. I've made a two-segment linear approximation (with a knee at blue-green wavelength) of the released Mercury spectra, ran it through some CIE XYZ code and this is the (non-gamma-corrected) resulting color: I took the "green" channel from that color release which approximates red in real color and "blue" which approximates blue (contrast-wise, the channels were equalized in brightness in the official release), created a synthetic green and adjusted the levels by the above result. This is what it ought to appear to human eyes: This is not gamma-correct, rather a simple lowering of saturation to mimic the 2.2 gamma saturation, while at the same time preserving contrast of features. Gamma-correct look (assuming the team did no contrast manipulations already) can be found here. Very soft colors, reminiscent of some Moon shots, but with a touch more saturation to it. An interesting comparison of the display-correct version to an image of the Moon from Apollo 10: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/...0-35-5249HR.jpg If you think the albedo features in the gamma-correct version are too bland, consider the Moon. Take away the maria and you're left with very subtle contrasts as well. "Natural" color indeed can look less than impressive, but we should be aware how the planets look nevertheless. I get nauseous when I see an orange-red Venus painted with Magellan data. That's pretty much every time it's depicted anywhere, be it a poster, a textbook, a certain JPL site... -------------------- |
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Jan 30 2008, 08:21 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 241 Joined: 16-May 06 From: Geneva, Switzerland Member No.: 773 |
The "spider" in the center of Caloris reminds me the one found in the center of Mannann'an crater on Europa:
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpegMod/PIA01406_modest.jpg Was also considered as something never seen before. Of course, the scale is not the same, the surface material is quite different, but who knows, may be the formation processes are similar. Marc. |
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Jan 30 2008, 09:34 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 118 Joined: 18-November 07 Member No.: 3964 |
Thanks, ugordan.
I know that true colors images are often less spectacular than false color images, but I always prefer natural colors. Just like to know, how would it look like trough my own eyes |
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Jan 30 2008, 09:47 PM
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#484
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
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Jan 30 2008, 11:12 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2997 Joined: 30-October 04 Member No.: 105 |
Either there is a stitching artifact running across the middle of Prockter06.jpg or we've got some sort of strike-slip fault...
--Bill -------------------- |
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Jan 31 2008, 02:44 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 207 Joined: 6-March 07 From: houston, texas Member No.: 1828 |
looks very much like a standard image offset, not a strike-slip. Im sure people will be looking for them.
here is an stretched version of the color mosaic. all sorts of different colors pop out. looks like 3 to 4 basic units, including caloris fill, volcanic and impact plains and young crater units. should make interesting mapping . . . paul -------------------- Dr. Paul Schenk, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston TX
http://stereomoons.blogspot.com; http://www.youtube.com/galsat400; http://www.lpi.usra.edu/science/schenk/ |
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Jan 31 2008, 06:54 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1870 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
The "enh-3" image shows the most color and terrain/albedo detail in a balanced fashion. The "enh-bw-2" image shows the enhanced average of the 3 bands The "enh-2" image has stronger colors overlaid on the "enh-bw-2" version. Note various craters and other non-crater features, some in Caloris, some elswhere, that show a distinctive orange-yellow color: south Caloris rim vicinity, a crater N of Caloris, the center only of a crater south of the image center, scraps of terrain WSW of Tolstoj. Some dark albedo features near frame center and crater rims in the south mid latitudes are dark and blue <all colors relative>. The double-ring basin halfway beteween Caloris and the terminator have distinctive light-blue colors in the ring of peaks, as does the large crater to it's SSW with a sharply defined ring of central peaks. There seem to be a LOT of craters with central peaks totally different in color from the rest of the crater: floor, walls, ejecta and surroundings. Plains filling craters and basins and inter-crater-plains tend to be somewhat higher albedo than adjacent non-plains and somewhat redder: yellowish, tanish, compared with surroundings. It's clear that we're dealing with volcanic fills, rather than impact melt sheets -- the Caloris ejecta is remarkably non-distinctive -- but none or essentially none of them appear to be dark like lunar basalts. |
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Jan 31 2008, 08:01 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2530 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 321 |
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Jan 31 2008, 08:27 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Something in the normalization of the raw data could also be at work. Residual bias in the CCDs can easily be the culprit, such as incomplete removal of dark current (say due to different camera parameters or different lookup tables used). Another reason might be flatfield effects near the left side of the detector. The levels of excessive saturation applied seen here will bring out even the tiniest filter-to-filter differences. -------------------- |
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Jan 31 2008, 09:11 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2997 Joined: 30-October 04 Member No.: 105 |
Good work, edstrick. This does highlight important compositional differences in the surface (and subsurface, counting the excavations).
A good reference to the nearest "terrestrial analog" (our Moon) is at Steve Alber's website. Warning: it seems that the data file is corrupted at the site, I can only get some 3mB of te 4.8 mB file and can't view the southern 1/3 of the image. http://laps.noaa.gov/albers/sos/moon/moon_...olor_brim16.jpg --Bill -------------------- |
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Jan 31 2008, 09:16 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 714 Joined: 3-January 08 Member No.: 3995 |
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Jan 31 2008, 09:27 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1870 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
They're relatively blue as are the central peaks of the peak-ring, the DARK splotches outside of them are intensely blue. <wavelength-relative> as is the dark area between the peaks. The rest of the crater floor and walls and surroundings are utterly nondescript other than a yellowish tinge to the walls, rim and close-in ejecta.
There are scattered things like this in the Mariner data.... oddities, more seen at high sun than at low sun so relief is uncertain, generally not well seen... It's been hard to do more with them than scratch dandruff at them. The dark and blue might be high-titania...... but.. ?basalt?.. nothing dark like basalt seems to be widespread. Note: These images had to be degraded to get them online here. More jpg artifacts than in the original enhancements. |
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Jan 31 2008, 09:27 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2997 Joined: 30-October 04 Member No.: 105 |
>The white splotches
The almost look like alluvial fans. I wonder if the uplifted rock unit of the central peak is not of a composition that weathers to a light-toned deposit? --Bill -------------------- |
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Jan 31 2008, 09:36 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1870 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
I'm going to add two more enhancements, both black and white: the enhanced red and the enhanced blue component of the "enh-2" color version.
The "Super-Red" image largely suppresses low contrast ejecta splatters and turns the brightest, bluest of them black, vastly reducing ejecta interference with underlying terrain differences. the "Super-Blue" image, conversely, nearly eliminates widespread, reginonal albedo and color variations between units, rendering any lighter and bluer ejects with Tycho-Ejecta like-new effect. |
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Jan 31 2008, 09:42 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1870 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
"I wonder if the Hapke function varies for different wavelengths. The amounts of excess green near the terminator and yellow near the limb seem suspicious. Something in the normalization of the raw data could also be at work"
Yes, and the distinct UV to IR upward slope in the spectrum is the sort of thing that brings out weak photometric color effects, but I doubt that's significant here. As commented above, tiny errors in image calibration can wreck havoc with really strong enhancements like these. 1/2 DN <digital number> can wash your color differences with a color cast near the terminator. I had a horrible red cast near the terminator in the approach image color enhancement I posted a few days ago. There turned out to be 3 DN of scattered light near the terminator on the dark side in the "red" channel, less than 1 in the "blue" channel. Subtracting appropriate zero-level offsets vastly improved the result though it was not perfect. For quick-and-dirty calibration, i'm NOT complaining. This promises high quality results from carefully calibrated and non-jpg degraded 11 channel data to come. |
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