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| Keywords: Mars Viking 12a240.png Viking 1 lander image of a martian sunset over Chryse Planitia In this image the sun is 2 degrees below the local horizon The banding in the sky is an artifact produced by the incremental brightness levels of the camera This image was taken on the 30th martian day sol after touchdown at 19 13 local time 10 40 31 on 20 August 1976 UTC The camera is pointing towards the southwest Own work based on images in the http //pdsimg jpl nasa gov/data/vl1_vl2-m-lcs-2-edr-v1 0/vl_0001/ NASA Viking image archive 2009-01-24; original photos were taken 1976-08-20 Roel van der Hoorn Van der Hoorn I used the original http //pdsimg jpl nasa gov/data/vl1_vl2-m-lcs-2-edr-v1 0/vl_0001/a2xx/12a240 blu 12a240 blu http //pdsimg jpl nasa gov/data/vl1_vl2-m-lcs-2-edr-v1 0/vl_0001/a2xx/12a240 grn 12a240 grn and http //pdsimg jpl nasa gov/data/vl1_vl2-m-lcs-2-edr-v1 0/vl_0001/a2xx/12a240 red 12a240 red images from the http //pdsimg jpl nasa gov/data/vl1_vl2-m-lcs-2-edr-v1 0/vl_0001/a2xx/ NASA Viking image archive converted them to png manually removed the noise merged them into one image almost matching true color; see here for the channel mixing process and finally increased the brightness with 35 Except for the conversion this was done in Adobe Photoshop CS2 The original file by NASA is in the public domain and so is this new one I created this image as a replacement for the image Viking sunset jpg see also http //nssdc gsfc nasa gov/imgcat/html/object_page/vl1_12a240 html here This file was created by NASA but the quality was not very high Using the original pictures from the Lander archive resulted in a higher quality image Van der Hoorn The image is based on an original image from NASA to which the following copyright statement is applicable PD-USGov-NASA Viking mission Sunset on Mars Chryse Planitia | ||||
