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Author Re: Does the Hyugens-Cassini space science platform use the same image compression fo
Mark Adler

2005-04-09, 3:55 am

Max Power wrote:
> Does the Huygens-Cassini space science platform use the same image
> compression format as the Mars Rovers?

No. Cassini's visible-wavelength cameras use JPEG-like compression in
hardware. I don't know what Huygens used, but the images were highly
compressed. MER uses wavelet or LOCO compression in software.

mark

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