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Sol 422 - Viking Pan
djellison
post Apr 8 2005, 11:50 AM
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I think Voyager is just off frame to the right of this unfortunately

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post Apr 8 2005, 06:50 PM
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Well - it's getting warmer (spring is coming ) so the CCD will get a little noisier. That, and using the fairly dark L7 filter, late in the afternoon means a long exposure.

A warm ccd, with long exposure = hot pixels smile.gif

They can process them out using calib data on earth I believe

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