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Sol398 Revisited In Color, The real Desert Planet
Nirgal
post Apr 26 2005, 02:06 AM
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well, we havn't been blessed with much new images from the rovers for a while...
so I browsed through the existing ones.
One of Oppy's Navcam-Panoramas
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07464
catched my imagination.

A lonely rover in the middle of this incredible vast and barren ocean of sand,
called Meridiani Planum:



High resolution download here (400 KB)
http://mitglied.lycos.de/user73289/misc/desertplanet_jpg.jpg
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The original image is part of a Navcam-Panorama. So I had to colorize it
from plain b/w without multi-filter information.
The detail view of the rover tracks shows how I tried to improve the
colorization to match as close as possible the "real" i.e. multi-filter composed images:



special thanks to Daniel Crotty (slinted) whose excellent color image gallery
are a great inspiration for chosing the martian color shades & hues ... smile.gif
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- Nirgal   Sol398 Revisited In Color   Apr 26 2005, 02:06 AM
- - Nix   Lovely... the scene has a very desolate feel and ...   Apr 26 2005, 06:53 AM
- - Tman   Irradiated by Tman (couldn't overcome the temp...   Apr 26 2005, 02:40 PM
|- - Nirgal   QUOTE (Tman @ Apr 26 2005, 04:40 PM)Irradiate...   Apr 26 2005, 03:04 PM
|- - wyogold   [/quote] that's getting better all the time ...   May 3 2005, 05:29 AM
- - Tman   Yes, I've already noticed this real lens flare...   Apr 26 2005, 03:51 PM
- - slinted   Wow, I'm really impressed with what you're...   Apr 26 2005, 05:38 PM
|- - 4th rock from the sun   QUOTE (slinted @ Apr 26 2005, 06:38 PM)We...   Apr 28 2005, 10:17 PM
- - glennwsmith   Great work Nirgal. Glenn   Apr 28 2005, 12:50 AM

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