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An Image Processing Trick Shows Mars In Unprecedented Detail

An Image Processing Trick Shows Mars In Unprecedented Detail

by The Daily Eye Team April 29 2016, 6:30 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 39 secs

Researchers have released images of the Martian surface at five timesgreater resolution than previously seen, and they didn’t need to send a new camera into space to get them.In February, University College London researchers Yu Tao and Jan-Peter Muller published a paper in Planetary and Space Science detailing an image processing technique that compares several images of the same area of Mars from different angles to glean resolution down to 5cm as opposed to the previous 25cm. On Tuesday, they released images taken from orbit that use the technique to focus on specific Martian objects—including what looks like the long-lost British lander Beagle 2, which was deployed from the Mars Express orbiter in 2003 but failed to make contact on landing.

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Reema Moudgil has been a journalist since 1994 and has written on cinema, theatre, gender issues, music, art, architecture and more. Her first novel Perfect Eight was published in 2010 and was recently prescribed as a post graduation text in the post colonial Indian writing course in Jyothi Niwas College, Bangalore. She also won an award for her writing/book from the Public Relations Council of India in association with Bangalore University. Since 2010, she has co-founded Unboxed Writers (currently being rebooted), edited Chicken Soup for the Soul-Indian Women, and translated Dominican poet Josefina Baez’s book Comrade Bliss Ain’t Playing in Hindi. She is also an Urdu, English and Hindi RJ and as an artist, has exhibited her work in India and the US. 


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