IPL processing of the Mariner 10 images of Mercury

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy

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Data Processing, Digital Spacecraft Television, Mariner Venus-Mercury 1973, Mercury (Planet), Planetary Mapping, Spaceborne Photography, Astronomical Photography, Computer Techniques, High Pass Filters, Imaging Techniques, Morphology, Mosaics, Transfer Functions

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This paper describes the digital processing performed on the images of Mercury returned to earth from Mariner 10. Each image contains considerably more information than can be displayed in a single picture. Several specialized processing techniques and procedures are utilized to display the particular information desired for specific scientific analyses: radiometric decalibration for photometric investigations, high-pass filtering to characterize morphology, modulation transfer function restoration to provide the highest possible resolution, scene-dependent filtering of the terminator images to provide maximum feature discriminability in the regions of low illumination, and rectification to cartographic projections to provide known geometric relationships between features. A principal task was the construction of full disk mosaics as an aid to the understanding of surface structure on a global scale.

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