One year ago today the #DARTMission crashed into asteroid Dimorphos. This image was taken by the accompanying #LICIACube spacecraft and shows ejecta streaming out after the impact.
I reprocessed this image from the official press image that was stretched very unconventionally via multiple boxes. Luckily this was reversible and I could even restore color information from the bayer array on the sensor.
@tom30519 Nah it's very uncommon, I can see how someone could see benefit in it for some kind of analysis task, but I think it's a bad choice for an image you want to share with a general audience.
The original filename is "_5_1_licia_for_tom" which suggests it's just an image that was shared between scientists in an email and somehow found it's way into the official press release. It's still the highest resolution image that was shared from LICIACube to my knowledge, which is a bit of a shame.
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