Thanks to Emily's blog on the Hubble Legacy Archive (http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00002408), I stayed up way too late last night downloading hubble data to process. Here's a great shot that hasn't been seen much. Processed using Maxim DL and Photoshop.
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Please, stay up tonight...

If it means you'll produce more lovely images like that, I'm sure there are a few of us here who'd happily chip in to buy you a huge jar of coffee to keep you awake the next few nights...!

It is a neat shot. I worked with it a while back. http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00001828/

Nice Ted-
I meant to say the data hadn't been used in PR.

I was sad to see that Hubble sat out this time around.

I was wondering about that, and was going to email Jim Bell asking if that was the case...

I don't think Hubble was needed for good observations - according to many emails that I received, Mars was "going to be as big as the Full Moon as seen from Earth" for the first time in hundreds of years...

(ducks and runs)

Here's my version of that shot:


Remember this was actually scheduled to record the impact that never happened - 2007 WD5.

I've posted a couple of other Mars views in my Flickr gallery, all of them processed by interpolating the wavelengths of each filter and running them through CIE XYZ color calculation code - no other messing around with channel balance and tweaks. Any slight color differences thus arise due to a different filter set. A couple of takeouts:


An animation of 11 frames showing Mars going through phases over a course of 1 Earth year.


In terms of color accuracy, this is probably the best available combination I've seen with Hubble. 4 filters - actual red, green and blue wavelengths plus an additional one in between red and green as an extra data point in interpolation where it visually matters the most.