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Hi. I am looking into doing point photoclinometry for certain regions of Mars. I know how to process MOC images with ISIS, but does anyone know how to get the raw DN values of each pixel? Also, has anyone used SOCET SET to make stereo images?

I want to find a specific MOC image on the PDS http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/. I do a "Data Search", select Instrument "Mars Oribiter Camera", click "Go!", and get two results. But where do I go from there?

I am using ISIS2 and qview to look at processed MOC cubes. When I try to use the qview measure tool, one end of the measuring line is always trapped in the upper left hand corner. Has anyone else experienced this and/or found a way to fix this?

Not quite sure where to start with data from the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft? This article contains links to the raw data, and also links to the various software tools that members of the community have created to analyze the data itself.

How do I get science-quality MOC images from a press release image I like? For example, I want to use this press release image:

http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2004/04/30/

The numbering systems seem totally different though, so I don't know how to find that image in the data at:

http://ida.wr.usgs.gov/orb_page.html

Rotating Titan animated .GIF.

Creating shaded relief maps or combination colorized/shaded relief maps with MOLA data is easy to do with the Generic Mapping Tools (GMT).

The MOLA gridded data set is a great resource. The Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) are a great tool set. This article shows you how to take the raw binary MOLA gridded data set and convert it into the netCDF format that GMT uses. Once you do that, a whole range of mapping options are open to you.

Oftentimes when faced with a data-rich environment, a good way to begin the process of analyzing and organizing the data in order to get a look at the big picture is to use a classification scheme. Here I describe some ways to classify data, practical uses, an in-progress application of the data to Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) spectra of Titan, and some links to other places to obtain further information.