Image Sets  09 May, 2009 09:22

New Images From 09 May 2009 Added

09-129_08.53.51_VMC_Img_No_1.pngNew images have been posted to the image database. These images are from the VMC observation on 09 May 2009. To access the images click the link below. Also you can access the Celestia file to see where the images were captured and access the raw data in the zip file (for more details see Help us with the VMC)



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Image Sets  07 May, 2009 09:07

New Images From 07 May 2009 Added

09-127_08.37.56_VMC_Img_No_1.pngNew images have been posted to the image database. These images are from the VMC observation on 07 May 2009. To access the images click the link below. Also you can access the Celestia file to see where the images were captured and access the raw data in the zip file (for more details see Help us with the VMC)



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Image submitted by Ian Musgrave, Adelaide, Australia, 28 August 2008. Ian writes: Mike Malaska: Side View of Upper Atmosphere Clouds on Mars - Image taken by the MEX-VMC Camera of the Mars Express Spacecraft on December 15, 2009. In this image the detailed structure of upper atmosphere clouds can be seen against the masked limb of Mars. To make this image, MEX VMC Image 09-349_06.49.25_Img_No_57 and 58 were converted to a png files using the VMC2RGB utility. The two images were aligned in the stack with brighter image No 57 sitting on top of darker Image No 58. An artificial mask was made for the planetary disk of Image No 57 using a threshhold function. The mask allowed image 58 to be visible through the masked portion. Next saturation was increased and a custom channel mix added. A very subtle change in contrast gradient was added. Colors were unmodified. Image Credits: Mike Malaska/ESA Credit/caption: ESA/Mike Malaska, USA - cloud under changing lighting conditions Description Image submitted by Mike Malaska, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. Mike writes: Here is an image sequence of what I think is a cloud under changing lighting conditions at sunrise. To create this montage, I used Photoshop CS3. For each image, I used the floor of the crater near the terminator in image #5 as 'standard' and tried to adjust the exposure so that all the images in the sequence had the same level of exposure. The images were aligned, then cropped just enough to show some of the surface near the terminator. I added the date and time for the image in the sequence. All the frames have a 0.2-second delay, except the last frame (image 12) which has a 0.5-second delay before looping.