@AJamesMcCarthy: The sci-future I dreamed about as a kid is right here at our doorstep Did you know you can request the raw photos from …
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A tweet highlights that raw photos from the Artemis II mission are available for request, revealing hidden information not seen in standard JPGs, and directs to a thread for more details.
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The sci-future I dreamed about as a kid is right here at our doorstep
Did you know you can request the raw photos from the Artemis II mission? There is a lot of information hidden in the RAWs that isn’t visible in the jpgs.
Check the next post in this thread for the raw
This is how it looked before editing. Just boosted shadows- since it was captured in RAW all the information before compression was still there. You can download any of these photos and do this here: https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/Collections/Artemis/Artemis2/…
Beautiful edit!
Do you have any idea how insanely difficult this was to shoot? They did an amazing job. They trained for this for years, and exceeded expectations.
There’s so many gems in there, but many are underexposed thanks to the crazy lighting conditions.
The requests aren’t manually approved, it’s an automatic system
They have to be individually requested on a per-image basis, probably to prevent data scraping
I beg your pardon?
Hi @AJamesMcCarthy and @NASAAdmin @rookisaacman: What do you think this green light is in the image above? How can we reliably determine if it’s an odd internal reflection/refraction of sunlight in the window or camera lens vs. something actually on the lunar surface (a transient lunar phenomenon) vs. something between the spacecraft and the lunar surface?
Indeed! They also smartly bracketed their shots so they don’t have to constantly adjust as these conditions shifted.
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