Remember when I said we would start releasing data monthly to the PDS and public? We decided to work on improving calibration a little bit longer before we reprocess our data and start the monthly releases. Therefore, we are not going to have a June release (except for the usual weekly captioned image releases on Wednesdays), but we are getting closer to a regular monthly release! We are still ahead in our releases per PDS requirements, and we are preparing for the big reprocessing that is coming up. For example, our software pipelines have been updated to better automate reprocessing and we have hired two new student validators who will be responsible for visually inspecting all of the images as they are reprocessed. Training started this week.

Consider the May PDS release our practice run. Thank you for your patience…monthly releases of HiRISE images are indeed coming, but not quite as soon as we expected.