Popular Science USA – July-August 2019

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protector and the lens itself

were caked in dirt. I turned

up the brightness and con-

trast until we could make

out something: a flat plane.

We celebrated—we had

landed on a flat and work-

able Martian surface.

The photos we get now,

sans dust cap, are much

clearer. The rover routinely

takes selfies for its own

maintenance. That makes

our work different from

typical retouchers using

Photoshop to create perfec-

tion. If we tried to make the

shots flawless, we might ob-

scure a problem with the

craft—or a crucial discovery.

HALLIE ABARCA,HEAD OF

IMAGE PROCESSING FOR NASA’S

INSIGHT MARS LANDER

as told to Stan Horaczek / illustration by Pedro Piccinini

i edit

photos from

mars

#NOFILTER

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