First off, for finding CRISM data, I've been really impressed with the
Orbital Data Explorer over at the Geoscience Node. They have a very slick interface with maps and, once you learn the file extensions, you can search directly for a specific product type.
In terms of the CRISM PDS release itself, the furthest calibration that seems to be available right now are the I/F images. Unfortunately, these products don't take into account the atmospheric contribution. That light that makes the trip through the atmosphere twice turns out (...wait for it...) fairly dull shades of red. Eventually they will be releasing files that remove any atmospheric effects, both in image form and as a global gridded map. These will inevitably be much more pleasing to look at from a pretty picture perspective.
So far, I've just been playing with the VNIR (near infra-red and visible). (Ugordon, I guess I'm the exception to your suggestion about what people might be interested in) If 6 filters of visible light from pancam are good, then ~107 filters of visible light from CRISM is better, right?
But, the images below are heavily enhanced to get through the atmospheric blur, and thus, false-color.
Here are 3 images from the Phoenix landing area:
1|
http://www.lyle.org/~markoff/crism/frt0000...if168s_trr2.jpg2|
http://www.lyle.org/~markoff/crism/frt0000...if168s_trr2.jpg3|
http://www.lyle.org/~markoff/crism/frt0000...if168s_trr2.jpgand a map of their positions, based on the landing ellipse basemap:
http://www.lyle.org/~markoff/crism/phoenix_crism.jpgImages 1 and 2 overlap
this CTX image, 1 on the left side, and 2 on the right.
And, just for fun, here is one of the Columbia Hills:
and one of Victoria Crater (I think...)
For processing, I've been using a version of
Bippy that I kludged into working for the CRISM data. If people are interested, I can see about getting these changes worked into a future version.