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NASA Remasters 20-Year-Old Galileo Photographs of Jupiter's Moon, Europa
An anonymous reader writes with news that NASA has released remastered pictures of Europa taken by the Galileo spacecraft. "Scientists have produced a new version of what is perhaps NASA's best view of Jupiter's ice-covered moon, Europa. The mosaic of color images was obtained in the late 1990s by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. This is the first time that NASA is publishing a version of the scene produced using modern image processing techniques. This view of Europa stands out as the color view that shows the largest portion of the moon's surface at the highest resolution. An earlier, lower-resolution version of the view, published in 2001, featured colors that had been strongly enhanced. The new image more closely approximates what the human eye would see. Space imaging enthusiasts have produced their own versions of the view using the publicly available data, but NASA has not previously issued its own rendition using near-natural color."
In the new version, the bartender shoots first.
Want to know what a human eye would see? Send the best instrument: a Mark I Eyeball. In fact, you might want to send a woman or two... they tend to have better color perception than men (says a red-green deficient example of the male gender).
looks like a mammogram
Table-ized A.I.
Too bad Galileo had antenna problems. It could have taken far more snapshots from far more angles with less image compression. Overall it was a successful mission because it had other powerful instruments, but was light on the imaging side.
Table-ized A.I.
obese lard ethnic women chomping porcupines
Looks like it smashed into one helluva bug!
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
We're haven't reached the mid-2010's, so unless "late 1990's" includes 1994 or 1995, it hasn't been 20 years yet. Unless of course 15 years is now being rounded up to 20 years because kids these days are as good with mathematics as they are with english. What's a 25% difference between friends?
In case I'm wrong, please note that as usual I haven't read TFA, only the summary.
This is the full resolution image as a JPEG. More details on this page, including a link to the TIFF version. Bonus: a heck of a lot less overhead to display versus that badly optimized redorbit.com page.
What kind of shirt were they wearing when they made the announcement? The world needs to know.
In addition to the newly processed image, a new video details why this likely ocean world is a high priority for future exploration.
ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE.
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So they remastered this amazing photo, and all we get is a link to some blog with a 350x256 resolution view of it? Where's the pic?!
Poor coonunicstion.Product was scratched. D-. Would not buy again from this seller.
After they dragged their feet for a decade on a Europa mission. It was only because of the lobbying of Bill Nye and the Planetary Society that NASA was pulled kicking and screaming to this missions. They would much rather spend the money on more pointless manned missions.
While the ESA lands in comets, we're re-photoshopping 20 year old photos of our glory days. What's next? Posting voyager photos to Facebook?
Might as well rehash the golden years of space exploration and milk those memories of past glory. NASA has given up on space exploration as a mission. They're now focused on the politics of climatology...
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/n...
Wait, wait!! Let me do this Slashdot style, and find the worst possible source for the material... Here's a Gizmodo link which references the RedOrbit article which links to JPL:
http://gizmodo.com/europa-rema...
Can it get worse? You bet! Let's go deeper into the brown web... a vast sea of crappy auto-generated content.
http://mobilitybeat.com/gizmod...
The NASA article is a government work and not subject to copyright, so I can save you from doing any clicking whatsoever:
The puzzling, fascinating surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa looms large in this newly-reprocessed color view, made from images taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s. This is the color view of Europa from Galileo that shows the largest portion of the moon's surface at the highest resolution.
The view was previously released as a mosaic with lower resolution and strongly enhanced color (see PIA02590). To create this new version, the images were assembled into a realistic color view of the surface that approximates how Europa would appear to the human eye.
The scene shows the stunning diversity of Europa's surface geology. Long, linear cracks and ridges crisscross the surface, interrupted by regions of disrupted terrain where the surface ice crust has been broken up and re-frozen into new patterns.
Color variations across the surface are associated with differences in geologic feature type and location. For example, areas that appear blue or white contain relatively pure water ice, while reddish and brownish areas include non-ice components in higher concentrations. The polar regions, visible at the left and right of this view, are noticeably bluer than the more equatorial latitudes, which look more white. This color variation is thought to be due to differences in ice grain size in the two locations.
Images taken through near-infrared, green and violet filters have been combined to produce this view. The images have been corrected for light scattered outside of the image, to provide a color correction that is calibrated by wavelength. Gaps in the images have been filled with simulated color based on the color of nearby surface areas with similar terrain types.
This global color view consists of images acquired by the Galileo Solid-State Imaging (SSI) experiment on the spacecraft's first and fourteenth orbits through the Jupiter system, in 1995 and 1998, respectively. Image scale is 2 miles (1.6 kilometers) per pixel. North on Europa is at right.
The Galileo mission was managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, for the agency's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.
Additional information about Galileo and its discoveries is available on the Galileo mission home page at http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/galileo/. More information about Europa is available at http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/europa.