Image tampering or camera error?

[mac71]

Looks suspicious but maybe just a camera error.



marswatch.astro.cornell.edu/pancam_instrument/images/

B_145_burns.superres

[polluks]

Hi Mac71!

It looks more like a camera(image processing) error, in the static image...



but in the animated image, these white spots will look like this



i1146.photobucket.com/albums/o530/castor_polluks/Mars/z1500-1P141054865ESF3190P2557L7C1.gif

and some defects may look like a flies:

[Marsrocks]

It seems to be present in all the pictures from that camera - per Polluks animation, so it looks like we'll have bad pixels from a few bad CCDs for the rest of the journey.

With this many angles of the same feature - NASA will be able to use their super resolution software (developed by NASA-Ames) not only to get rid of the bad pixels, but also to give them a more highly focused close up image before they move forward.

I guess we'll see whether they share any super resolution images with the rest of us - here's hoping.

:P

[mac71]

Thanks Polluks, that makes sense, I guess I was just wanting to see something that wasn't there. ::)