Twin Peaks in Super Resolution - Left Eye
The Twin Peaks are modest-size hills to the southwest of the Mars
Pathfinder landing site. They were discovered on the first panoramas
taken by the IMP camera on the 4th of July, 1997, and subsequently
identified in Viking Orbiter images taken over 20 years ago. The peaks
are approximately 30-35 meters (-100 feet) tall. North Twin is
approximately 860 meters (2800 feet) from the lander, and South Twin
is about a kilometer away (3300 feet). The scene includes bouldery
ridges and swales or 'hummocks' of flood debris that range from a few
tens of meters away from the lander to the distance of the South
Twin Peak.
The composite color frames that make up this 'left-eye' image
consist of 8 frames, taken with different color filters that were
enlarged by 500% and then co- added using Adobe Photoshop to
produce, in effect, a super-resolution panchromatic frame that is sharper
than an individual frame would be. This panchromatic frame was then
colorized with the red, green, and blue filtered images from the same
sequence. The color balance was adjusted to approximate the
true color of Mars.
This image and PIA02406 (right eye)
make up a stereo pair.
Mars Pathfinder is the second in NASA's Discovery program of
low-cost spacecraft with highly focused science goals. The Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, developed and manages the Mars Pathfinder
mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. JPL is a
division of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). The IMP was
developed by the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
under contract to JPL. Peter Smith is the Principal Investigator.
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