Something a bit different. Recently I was on TAIC's stream and gave a talk on processing Mars data. While practicing my presentation, I did a few dry runs of editing Martian HiRISE data and the above was my favorite one that I tackled. I let random.org chose a random picture for me while doing the practice runs and actual presentation, because I think every single data set from HiRISE has
something pretty in it. This one was no exception. You can see the specifics of the acquisition information below if you are curious. If you are interested in what the colors mean- the blue represent finer grained particles relative to the red grains. Not perfectly scientific, but HiRISE on its own doesn't have a ton of super scientific uses but has loads when combined with other data sets like CRISM.
Hope you enjoy this image (also highly recommend opening the full res, this is a tiny tiny crop of an image over 100,000 pixels long, the detail is just incredible). I won't post many, but Eric Coles suggested I share one of these with the site since not many people ever process these data sets.
If you are interested in learned how to acquire and process this data, you can check out the live stream here where I walk through it.Acquisition date10 July 2014
Local Mars time15:43
Latitude (centered)-1.203°
Longitude (East)284.331°
Spacecraft altitude264.9 km (164.7 miles)
Original image scale range53.9 cm/pixel (with 2 x 2 binning) so objects ~162 cm across are resolved
Map projected scale50 cm/pixel and North is left
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