NASA revisits Europa with modern image-processing software NASA has re-issued a famous image of Jovian moon Europa, after subjecting it to “modern image processing techniques” for the first time. The 1.6km-per-pixel, 2300x1700 image is actually a composite of several captured by the Galileo probe during the craft's first and fourteenth orbits through the Jupiter system, in 1995 and …
Very interesting image. It is stunning how well modern mosaicing software works compared to the older stuff. I use those methods a lot in lunar (33 pane mosaic here) and solar (31 pane mosaic) imaging. Different deconvolution techniques really help as well.
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> I assume those big brown lines are MASSIVE motorways
With the emphasis on MASSIVE. 1.6 km is a mile, so by definition the finest line that you can resolve is already a mile across. That bright white line at highish latitude on the left is four or five miles wide, and some of the larger brownish ones are well over twenty miles wide. Fascinating. Europa has to be the next place we go... Or Titan. Hard to choose!
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