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Super-res results


This enhanced image with Big Crater in the background -- which turned out, serendipitously, to clearly show an object later identified as the jettisoned back-shell --


super-res-3-result.gif (202K)

is the result of combining 25 nearly-identical images taken by the IMP camera, using a technique called super-resolution developed at NASA Ames Information Sciences Division by Peter Cheeseman, Bob Kanefsky, Robin Hanson, and John Stutz.

A typical input image, scaled up by a factor of five with the pixels shown blocky, looks like this:


super-res-3-input.gif (109K)

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