My company, Million Concepts, wrote and maintains the software that makes the decorrelation stretch (DCS) images from the Mars rover cameras, like the one in the article.
It's open source and anybody can use it. On anything. It doesn't have to be space pictures!
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marslab/marslab/imgops/render.py at main · MillionConcepts/marslab
A home for Python utilities useful for working with observational data of Mars, especially multispectral image data. - MillionConcepts/marslab
This NASA Color Trick Was Meant for Mars. Now It’s Unveiling Rock Art on Earth gizmodo.com/this-nasa-co...
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This NASA Color Trick Was Meant for Mars. Now It's Unveiling Rock Art on Earth
Rather than simply raising the contrast between colors, the decorrelation method maps the original colors to an expanded range.