Alien Anomalies

qmantoo · Teaching the truth

RE: The Microscopic Imager pictures.

marsrocks · Veteran Member

Another alternative is to perfectly co-register your set of images into a stack. Then take that stack of images and input them into a super resolution/ stacking program - (these are often used in astronomy photos to stack details) - or add a layer of color from a panoramic image of the same scene:

See:

http://www.marsanomalies.com/colorco-registration

co-registration technique

marsrocks · Veteran Member

Here is an example using four available frames from the micro on Skipper's coin:

(Note the focal changes as the microscopic camera changes position).

marsrocks · Veteran Member

In addition to the pds, I think that a lot of scientists use this site:

http://an.rsl.wustl.edu/mer/

MER Analyst's Notebook

Keep in mind on micros, there are often five sets of images of the target area taken from five varying focal distances. This means that some areas are more blurry in 4 of the 5 images, but are in the best focus only in one of the images. There is also software that takes all five images and combines them into a single more highly focused one. ("Helicon focus") Another alternative is to create an avi of your target area from the five different images - and thus, see the full set at once - more or less, as the movie plays through its frames.

qmantoo · Teaching the truth

These should be pin-sharp pictures of the rock face so that scientists can examine details as imaged by the Microscopic Imager camera on board the rover. However, they are full of overall low level blurring and blackout areas which are supposed to look like natural shadow or just dark rock. What is the point of taking this instrument all the way to Mars just so that we can see images that are not good enough for scientific analysis.

Although I can see some point in blurring and blacking out areas of the main rover landscape pictures - to hide evidence of martian life on the surface, I cannot really think of a reason why the MI images would have the same process applied to them.

Unless of course, there is something in these pictures that are not supposed to be seen either.

Examining some of them closely appears to show regular small structures underneath the blurring and blackouts that I am sure scientists would love to examine, but how? Are these MI pictures in the PDS for them to download or can they order a CD containing them all perhaps?

How are scientists supposed to search for different minerals and evidence for water if they cannot see the fine detail in these images? Some minerals need to be identified by fine crystals but this is impossible with these pictures.

I am sure it is to save space and make these images load faster in browsers that they are not good quality, so maybe someone (OBrien?) can point me to a place where I can download the pictures designed to examined by planetry scientists who are writing peer-reviewed papers that rely on this data.

As an example of this I offer this section below from this original