A final post for 2011

The year 2011 has been a busy one for me, and I am resolving to make 2012 a more productive year in terms of image processing.   In the meantime, here is an improved version of the last Voyager 2 image of Ariel prior to near encounter in January 1986.

Processed image Copyright Ted Stryk, Raw Data Courtesy NASA/JPL

A Crescent Callisto

This is a crescent view of Jupiter's moon Callisto taken by Voyager 1 on March 6, 1979.   Many of the pictures that were taken in this dataset smeared or missed Callisto, and all of the images are underexposed.  The smoothness of the day/night terminator is a reminder that for all its craters, Callisto is a very flat world.

Processed image Copyright Ted Stryk, Raw Data Courtesy NASA/JPL