January 2, 2015
Credits: NASA/JPL/Arizona State University (ASU) - Credits for the additional process. and color.: Dr Paolo C. Fienga/Lunar Explorer Italia/IPF
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In this really inspiring VIS image, taken by the NASA - Mars Odyssey Orbiter on July, 9th, 2002, and during its 2.510th orbit around the Red Planet, we can see a relatively small portion of the Floor of the huge Martian Outflow Channel (carved by fluids, perhaps even water - but nobody can be sure about this circumstance so far) known as Ares Vallis, with several "Insulae" (a Latin word for "Islands") in it. Also - of course, always relatively speaking -, a small and fresh Impact Craters' Cluster can be seen in the central portion of the frame, towards the Left (Sx). Latitude (centered): 14,2746° North This image (which is an Original Mars Odyssey Orbiter false colors and Map-Projected frame published on the NASA - Planetary Photojournal with the ID n. PIA 18999) has been additionally processed, magnified to aid the visibility of the details, contrast enhanced and sharpened, Gamma corrected and then re-colorized in Absolute Natural Colors (such as the colors that a normal human eye would actually perceive if someone were onboard the NASA - Mars Odyssey Orbiter and then looked down, towards the Surface of Mars), by using an original technique created - and, in time, dramatically improved - by the Lunar Explorer Italia Team. |
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