• → European Space Agency

      • Space for Europe
      • Space News
      • Space in Images
      • Space in Videos
    • About Us

      • Welcome to ESA
      • DG's News and Views
      • For Member State Delegations
      • Business with ESA
      • ESA Exhibitions
      • ESA Publications
      • Careers at ESA
    • Our Activities

      • Space News
      • Observing the Earth
      • Human Spaceflight
      • Launchers
      • Navigation
      • Space Science
      • Space Engineering
      • Operations
      • Technology
      • Telecommunications & Integrated Applications
    • For Public

    • For Media

      • Media
      • ESA TV
      • Videos for professionals
      • Photos
    • For Educators

    • For Kids

    • ESA

    • SSA

    • Space Debris

    • Operations

    • ESOC

    • Mars Webcam

    • About the VMC
    • About the Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC)
    • FAQ - Frequently asked questions
    • Public participation
    • Help us with the VMC
    • Public gallery
    • Mars Express
    • Mars Express operations
    • Mars Express overview
    • Services
    • Help
    • Subscribe

    ESA > Our Activities > Operations > Mars Express VMC

    Newest submitted images - Mike Malaska

    Mike Malaska, USA - cloud under changing lighting conditions
    5 September 2008

    A very effective animation showing what appears to be a cloud formation under changing illumination. Mike writes: "The images were aligned, then cropped just enough to show some of the surface near the terminator."

    Mike writes:

    "Here is an image sequence of what I think is a cloud under changing lighting conditions at sunrise. To create this montage, I used Photoshop CS3. For each image, I used the floor of the crater near the terminator in image #5 as 'standard' and tried to adjust the exposure so that all the images in the sequence had the same level of exposure. The images were aligned, then cropped just enough to show some of the surface near the terminator. I added the date and time for the image in the sequence. All the frames have a 0.2-second delay, except the last frame (image 12) which has a 0.5-second delay before looping."

    The files used to create the animated GIF are:
    08_213_14_16_31_vmc_img_no_1.jpg
    08_213_14_20_04_vmc_img_no_4.jpg
    08_213_14_21_22_vmc_img_no_5.jpg
    08_213_14_25_16_vmc_img_no_8.jpg
    08_213_14_26_34_vmc_img_no_9.jpg
    08_213_14_30_28_vmc_img_no_12.jpg


    Mike says he's a frequent "denizen of unmannedspaceflight.com."

    Access latest image(s) in the VMC public gallery here.

    Rate this

    Views

    Share

    • Currently 0 out of 5 Stars.
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5
    Rating: 0/5 (0 votes cast)

    Thank you for rating!

    You have already rated this page, you can only rate it once!

    Your rating has been changed, thanks for rating!

    14
    Tweet
      • VMC public gallery

    Connect with us

    • RSS
    • Youtube
    • Twitter
    • Flickr
    • G+
    • Facebook
    • Livestream
    • Subscribe
    • App Store
    • ESA Operations Twitter

    Follow ESA operations

    • LATEST ARTICLES
    • · Earth Explorers take centre stage …
    • · The fast winds of Venus are gettin…
    • · ExoMars 2016 set to complete const…
    • · Herschel ends operations as orbiti…
    • · Europe’s largest spaceship reache…
    • FAQ

    • Jobs at ESA

    • Site Map

    • Contacts

    • Terms and conditions