MEX-VMC-Jan-11-2010-Gibbous-Phase-mars

            Image of Mars taken by the MEX-VMC camera on the Mars Express Spacecraft taken on January 11, 2009.

To make the image, raw images No 8 and No 16 were processed through the rgb2png utility, then image No 8 was aligned and placed under image No 16.  Contrast for No.8 was adjusted to match as well as a blending mask added.  Then an overall curves layer was added, followed by a Channel mix layer, then Hue/Saturation was increased +50 and a second curves layer added.  Known residual artifacts were clone stamped out.  Then a copy was converted to grayscale using a B&W conversion layer, and this image HIPassed by 5 pixels and overlaid onto the Gaussian blurred color layer.

Image Capture at Mars:January 11, 2010 at 01:43 UTC
Image Arrival on Earth & Post to Blog:January 11, 2010 04:11 UTC
Image processed and posted to Flickr:  January 12, 2010 01:20:53 UTC

<24 h from image acquisition!

Image credits:  ESA / Mike Malaska

Taken on: January 11, 2010

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