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[dilo]

[edstrick]

Given the horrendous noise levels in the image, if you can shrink it on the monitor, for example, look at a thumbnail, not the full-screen image, or back way away from the monitor, the haze structures are a lot easier to see as real features.

I do my image processing at work in our own industrial image processing software that uses 32 bit real numbers. If I could get the original decalibrated 32 bit data, there wouldn't be any additional noise added during processing, but I'm lucky to get 8-bit uncompressed tifs as my source material.... and sometimes they've turned out to be jpg's that were turned BACK into tifs!

[natrium]

Good job Picasso, but please don't cut off your ear just yet..

You mean Vincent Van Gogh, right?

[Deimos]

Running a bandpass filter enhancement on the TIF version of the sunset pic <from the planetary photojournal website>, I get a psychadelic version that shows abundant, though very low contrast rippled haze, superimposed on random noise and digitization contours from the camera's data (original, or the 8-bit/channel tif)

They recently added a full-resolution JPEG at JPL. http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/pre.../20050610a.html (bottom right link).

I haven't seen it at Photojournal yet, but the equivalent TIF is linked near the top of: http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~lemmon/mer/.