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Storm_nor5280 t1_ixrtw23 wrote

WTF...Why do these photos look so bad? I can take a better photo from here with my Iphone.

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Gilgamesh72 t1_ixs8e7a wrote

It’s from a ship moving at 25k mph with a camera that wasn’t designed for high quality planetary survey, I’d bet it was a while were here thing

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NotAHamsterAtAll t1_ixskupb wrote

I guess they bought the camera when they started the project. So it is 25 years old now.

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PhoenixReborn t1_ixspaj1 wrote

This camera isn't meant to look good to us. It's meant for optimal computer recognition of features for navigation.

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acksed t1_ixvcsws wrote

According to Scott Manley they are plain old GoPro 4s.

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xoverthirtyx t1_ixsz78e wrote

No kidding, it had no problem sending crispy shots of Orion with a nice Earth rise, but behind a blurry dull moon.

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HardenPatch t1_ixtvqo3 wrote

Because the moon itself is dull, increasing the contrast would mean overexposing Orion. The camera is pretty good but it had to send live-ish footage travelling at a huge speed so they couldn't send all the data and the result was highly compressed.

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xoverthirtyx t1_ixsz7qt wrote

No kidding, it had no problem sending crispy shots of Orion with a nice Earth rise, but behind a blurry dull moon.

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