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Old January 17th 05, 06:49 PM
Gigadude
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The images seem to be very noisey with low signal/noise ratio. I was
wondering if maybe grit, contaminants, radiation damage caused lots of
speckles in the images which caused the image compression algorithm to
waste bits encoding image speckles/artifacts instead of Titan features.
Was this unexpected? If so this is a big disapointment. Do you think
there is anyway they can recover from this, or is the information lost
forever?
The fact that fantastically interesting surface processes are just out
of visual distinction is very frustrating!
Look at
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~kholso/cameras.htm
to see how clear and nice the test images were....