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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."
looks like a mammogram
Table-ized A.I.
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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