PLANETARY RESEARCH LINKS
This page is a convenience distribution point for any who wish to access and do some of their own exploration work in the primary and most common official planetary exploration science databases for Mars and the Moon. The links below will take you to the starting point for the various online databases that are made available to the public. Note that each link has an explanation for what it accesses and some of my thoughts that might be informative out beside it.
If you intend to download images and operate on them with a graphics software program, consider these points. When possible and if there is a choice, use only much slower loading but higher detail lesser compression GIF format image files or higher such as BMP or TIFF if you have the hard drive storage room and if these are available. Do not use JPEG files if there is a choice unless you just want to do only some basic examination. If you've downloaded compression files such as JPEG or GIF onto your hard drive, do not subsequently work the image in that format because each time you save, you are further compressing the image and reducing its quality and detail content.
Rather, before you do any work in a file, change the image "mode" to RGB, if it isn't already that. This is simply because many graphics software program functions cannot operate with other than RGB image modes. Then also immediately change the JPEG or GIF format file to PNG or PSD or even TIFF or BMP format file and save all your subsequent work files as needed repeatedly in that format to preserve detail quality. If you wish to send an image to someone for them to simply look at or to post an image online, simply convert the sending image back to JPEG and its compression factor for those purposes. If you can at all help it, do not clog mailboxes or websites with giant file size images.
The mission data sources below are the most common and listed in order of the oldest first to the newest the further down you go and with general resources listed last.
VIKING MARS DATA
http://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/Admin/resources/cd_viking.html#vkoEDR: This link takes you to the archive of the older Viking Orbiter and Lander Mars data both online and on disc media dating back into the 1970s. In my opinion, this data is characterized by very extensive wide area blanketing type smudge image tampering that is both crude and obvious. However, these tampering applications were applied in the individual small imaging strips that were then later joined into a mosaic to form a larger viewing scene. Since the different smaller strips received different types of tampering applications, when they were joined to form the larger mosaic, the mismatched tampering fields and their boundary edges were obviously apparent. For example, one might be smooth and the one immediately adjacent to it might be grainy presenting a sharp contrasting boundary line. On the other hand, although thoroughly blanketing and effective in this way, the tampering technology was also immature and mistake prone so careful research may be productive here capitalizing on mistakes in the tampering applications if one has the patience to slog through the blanketed images.
CLEMENTINE MOON DATA
http://www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil/clementine/clib: This link takes you to the Navy and DOD (Department of Defense) military server for the publicly available Clementine Moon survey data using the CLIB browser. Use the "Desired Resolution" 1 pixel=1 kilometer and "Image Size In Pixels" 768x768 selections to achieve the closest resolution imaging. This was primarily a military intelligence project no matter what else they may call it with only lip service involvement by NASA in oversight. In my opinion, this was primarily an experiment to test the thoroughness and practicality of anomalous evidence obfuscation techniques of mapping and object recognition software that were to be used in later Mars missions. The experiment was a success in one sense in that it did fairly effectively hide just about all anomalous evidence but in the process it left the overall terrain in a terrible jumbled mess that didn't much resemble natural geology at all and this is easily discernible. Further, it mapped and conformed too closely to really huge anomalous objects both revealing itself as image tampering application as well as revealing the outline and general shape of the unacceptable objects the tampering is hiding. See my Reports 067-071 for some of this evidence.
MGS MOC MARS DATA
http://www.msss.com: This link takes you to the MSSS (Malin Space Science Systems) website for the MGS (Mars Global Surveyor) MOC (Mars Orbiter Camera) satellite survey imaging data. MSSS is the JPL private subcontractor who designed, built, and operates the MOC camera systems as well as received and processed the imaging data. The advantage of accessing this site rather than USGS for the same data is that here you will find important browser compatible GIF images with more detail content. The disadvantage is that the very last images prior to the reported failure of the mission equipment is not housed here but is located at USGS. This MGS MOC data is the most accessed in my research because it has the most mistakes (few in absolute terms) made in the image tampering revealing a higher percentage of truth here and there as compared with the more obfuscated subsequent Odyssey, ESA and MRO data.
http://ida.wr.usgs.gov: This link takes you to the USGS (United States Geological Survey) website for the same MGS MOC data. Anticipate that one day in the future this may be the only archived data available if MSSS is eventually allowed to drop its material and the cost of supporting same. The advantage here is that the very last images made by the mission equipment before its reported failure will reside here. Also, the browser compatible JPEG images are divided up into sections meaning that one doesn't have to download the whole image if one doesn't want to, only a section of it. The disadvantage is that the only browser compatible images here are compressed JPEG images with theoretically reduced resolution as compared to the GIF images available at MSSS.
NOTE #1: For research purposes don't worry so much about downloading the raw very large file size proprietary IMG and IMQ data from either the MSSS or USGS site sources in an attempt to get the best quality. Even though these image file sizes are very large and it defies reason and technological principles, nonetheless they very often have no more detail in them than the browser compatible JPEG or GIF and sometimes not as much as GIF files. On the other hand, the IMG or IMQ files are the ones to use if you need material that is legally public domain.
NOTE #2: The straight GIF strips are often flipped at official level in this data and especially in the earlier dated image sets as compared to the latter ones. Even though not always, this flipping can and often does distort evidence including dramatically sometimes rendering its true evidence as unrecognizable. It is my opinion that this is a intentional obfuscation tactic. Often it helps to check the orientation of the straight GIF strip against that of the companion wide-angle context image if there is one and/or against the orientation of the first listed JPEG or GIF angled strips that usually have the correct orientation. Also, if the official orientation doesn't make much sense to your eye, this is a clue and flipping the image around may reveal an orientation that is a clear resolvement of this issue.
ODYSSEY THEMIS MARS DATA
http://themis-data.asu.edu: This link takes you to the distribution page for the THEMIS data administered by the Arizona State University who operates and controls the mission camera systems. The term ODYSSEY is the name of the mission and space vehicle while THEMIS stands for the onboard "Thermal Emission Imaging System." The latter consists of two independent imaging systems, one is a 10-band thermal infrared imager and the other is a 5-band visible imager. This mission follows fairly shortly after the earlier MGS MOC primarily visual data mission and their data output overlaps in time. In my opinion and from the visual evidence point of view, this data is generally more obfuscated than the MGS MOC data and I suspect that is because the MGS MOC data had too many flaws in it from the secrecy point of view and this "problem" was fixed for the most part in the THEMIS data.
MER-A (Spirit) & MER-B (Opportunity) MARS ROVER DATA
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html: This link takes you to the JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) a division of the Caltech (California Institute of Technology) main distribution page for the official rover imaging data. Note that only the black and white "raw" data for the two rovers is suppose to be the real science data. Only this is theoretically suitable as hard evidence and holding someone's foot to the fire on. All other images at this location have been worked over and manipulated by intervening people and graphics software programs for various presentation purposes and are generally not as suitable as evidence because of the chance of that intervention factor in the evidence chain. Likewise, although the rover very high camera resolution has been touted as some of the best ever in planetary work, this perceived camera resolution advantage has been mostly negated in the data's online public release because the "raw" images are in severely compressed JPEG format resulting in resolution too poor to adequately zoom in and examine evidence very much closer without quickly encountering JPEG pixelation artifact problems that can alter evidence shapes. You must decide for yourself whether this is intentional obfuscation or not.
ESA MARS DATA
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/index.html: This link takes you to the ESA (European Space Agency) distribution page for ESA's "Mars Express" mission exploration data. Now these images are different than those produced in the USA. Here in the USA, the entire imaging data theoretically must be publicly released while in the ESA imaging only selected data is apparently publicly released. Further, most of this imaging is processed with artificial color added. The color addition process is almost certainly achieved via automated mapping and object recognition software. This is the same type of software that enables image tampering to be mapped into a image strip. Therefore, although the colorized images are often quite beautiful and pleasing to the eye, expectations of much truth from such imaging must be geared accordingly.
MRO HiRISE MARS DATA
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu: This link takes you to The University of Arizona MRO (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) database distribution page as operated by their Department of Planetary Sciences, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. This entity operates the mission camera systems, processes the incoming imaging data, and presents it for public examination. This data is suppose to be of even higher camera resolution than the Mars rover data. With your common browser, you will be able to download the "browser version" of the image but, even though fairly substantial, this is the lowest resolution available. Greater resolution is available in the form of the proprietary JPEG2000 format images but these require you to download and install the free "IAS Viewer" software to view it. If you go this route, be cautious of the file sizes involved as the largest JPEG2000 images can be extremely large, extremely slow to load, and take up vast amounts of hard drive space. Despite the touted very high camera resolution, in my opinion, this often does not translate into a better look at critical evidence, at least in the publicly available material. One has to understand that the very high resolution also theoretically enables extremely fine image tampering done on such a tiny scale as to be nearly undetectable in the publicly available views and expectations should be geared accordingly.
NASA PDS IMAGING NODE
http://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/index.html: This link takes you to the NASA's PDS (Planetary Data Systems) Imaging Node distribution page. This is your general reference source for all of the various space exploration missions conducted by NASA. A lot of the mission data is available online and some on disc media for purchase. All of the missions and their data can be found here.
HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE
htt://hubblesite.org/gallery/album: This link takes you to the Hubble Space Telescope image gallery page where you will find access to the entire image collection also divided up into convenient catagories.
NASA PLANETARY PHOTOJOURNAL
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html: This link takes you to the NASA site that posts an archive of planetary images. It's a good interesting general resource and easier to navigate but not so good from the evidence chain point of view. Some of these images are manipulated presentation images and presented as a matter of general interest on a selected basis. In other words, that means that this is not a place to examine all of the imaging from a particular mission or to necessarily get material that can qualify as hard evidence.
MOON IMAGING BY JAPAN
http://www.jaxa.jp/topics/2007/11_e.html: This link takes you to the Japanese JAXA or Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency website page where Japan's first lunar orbiter (Kaguya) images of the Moon are expected to be made available.
MOON IMAGING BY CHINA
http://www.cnsa.gov.cn/n615709/n620682/index.html: This link takes you to the China National Space Administration website page where China's first lunar orbiter (Chang'e-1) images of the Moon are expected to be made available.
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