Image Fest #5
Here are 67 RGB images from orbits 1700 – 1800. It’s a diverse collection of incredible images, making it difficult to pick a favorite. As always, click anywhere in the image to launch the JP2 and zoom in.
PSP_001764_1880 (Zunil Crater rim) stands out to me, since I used it early on when putting together our color processing pipeline. It looked absolutely grey, so I figured I had made a mistake. Then I saw that gorgeous swath of blue on the crater rim, where it looks like a small landslide has exposed fresher material, and I knew everything was starting to work properly.
But a short list of the must-see-RGB would have to include these:
There are two nice isolated gullies: PSP_001712_1405 & PSP_001714_2390.
PSP_001720_1730 is missing one-half of the RGB color, due I think to IR channels that weren’t received. A recent update to our color processing will allow to go ahead and automatically produce the RGB product in cases like this.
The transition between dunes and an extremely steep scarp in PSP_001728_1995 is quite striking (see below, zoomed out 4x).
How about the Boulder race in PSP_001730_1740?
PSP_001732_2595 shows an interesting type of patterned ground, where boulders have shifted into a regular series of repeating lines.
PSP_001782_1195 is giving me trouble, some browsers won’t display it here; it is a bin-4 37500-line image.
April 21st, 2008 at 10:21 pm
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May 4th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
The scattered rocks to the left of the gully in 00172-1405 seem to be casting long shadows and which way is the gully sloping?
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:16 pm
@ Ben
hmmm long shadows, don’t think so… looking more like another some sort of ground
do we have another view? might be shadows but then unexplainable long
June 11th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
I’m not sure what that web-site question is all about — I only want to know if the color is actuall color or false color — and yes I AM impressed with all this — WAY TOI GO JPL !
June 11th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
OOPS …… LPL I wrote JPL out of habit …….. and way to go U of A !
June 12th, 2008 at 10:17 am
@John – The color in HiRISE images is all false color. We have three filters, in red, blue-green, and near-infrared wavelengths, and we combine them into false-color images. There are more details in our FAQ: http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/faq/ (look for “false color”)
July 8th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
False color… Looks incredible! makes me want to be there, even though I wouldn’t last too long
October 14th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
These are amazing. I wonder if we can crash a rocket here and take some measurements.