"The E-Mail"

>Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 14:05:51 -0700
>From: Noel Gorelick
>To: Hrallen
>Subject: Re: Mars northern plains images
>User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i
>
>On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 01:16:27PM -0400, Hrallen wrote:
> > Photos were supplied to the National Geographic Society for its
> > January 2004 issue on Mars. I would like to secure a copy of the
> > originals for a project that I am currently working on. However, I
> > cannot seem to find
> all
> > of the images supplied to NGS. Most were from ASU, Noel Gorelick.
> > I sent him an e-mail 3 weeks ago with no response. I am most
> > interested in the images of Themis infared of the Mars northern
> > plains as depicted in the article. However, I cannot use the photos
> > of NGS due to their editorial on the images. Do you have a link to
> > where I can find all of
> the
> > photos?
> > I would greatly appreciate any help you can provide. ( I have been
> through
> > several links on the web from various sources including
> > Nasa and JPL but to no avail for these images.)
>
>Sorry, it appear your previous email to me was flagged by the
>University's spam filters, so I never saw it.
>
>The images used in the national geographic article are available here:
>http://www.mars.asu.edu/~gorelick/ng
>
>You may use them for any non-commercial purpose. Depending on what
>you're trying to accomplish, I may have better images that you could
>use instead; these were made pretty early in the mission, mostly by
>hand, and our software and techniques have improved a lot since then.
>
>--
>Noel Gorelick (deleted)
>Software Manager
>Mars Space Flight Facility
>Arizona State University





>Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 18:05:45 -0700
>From: Noel Gorelick
>Subject: Re: Mars northern plains images
>To: Hrallen
>X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i
>
>On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 06:46:21PM -0400, Hrallen wrote:
> > Mr. Gorelick,
> > I have looked at the images posted at the web site. My question
> > is,
> why
> > are the images posted less sharp than what are published in the NGS?
>
>With the exception of fig28, those are all the original images that
>were provided to NG; they had me redo fig28 a couple of times before
>they finally went to press (see melting_v22.png). I think I recall
>they also had me color-separate the pinwheel crater image.
>
>Part of what makes NG such a good magazine is that they know how to
>make everything look good in print. It's likely the did some addtional
>contrast and color enhancements.
>
>--
>Noel Gorelick (deleted)
>Software Manager
>Mars Space Flight Facility
>Arizona State University