Dust Storms as seen by Mars Express HRSC Options

[kyokugaisha]

The latest HRSC upload (June '11) contain some pretty incredible dust storm images. I've put together a few colour animated gifs to see the movements of the storms and associated dust devils.

The gifs are all here (BTW Picassa doesn't seem to like them being animated so you might need to download them to see the movement).

This one is a particular favourite.



There is a little chromatic smearing as there was movement within the RGB images but I think the overall effect is pretty nice.

[djellison]

http://global-data.mars.asu.edu/bin/hrsc.pl goes higher than that I think - but not all of them.

[ugordan]

Here's a very rough attempt at natural-ish color with atmospheric extinction mostly removed. 3 filter color except the actual storm where 2 filter color was used since the "red" filter had too much shift. Massive color noise reduction as well. Some color fringes remains - the entire scene was mostly blanketed with a thin layer of dust clouds.