Europa - depth estimation from a single image / test - false color

Visual interpretation of relief on Europa based on depth estimation from a single image

 

Zoedepth was not trained for DTM - the 3D image may contain errors, since it's not based on a DTM but on an AI model that hasn't been trained on planets.

 

Process on 2d image : false color, not RGB

 

Enlargement, enhancement and colorisation

 

Original version available on Nasa photojournal : photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA25498

 

Surface of Europa taken by Galileo / NASA - November 6, 1997

 

Process on 3d image :

 

Not based on a DTM, but a visual interpretation of the surface

 

Thank you ZoeDepth: Zero-shot Transfer by Combining Relative and Metric Depth : see it on arxiv.org/abs/2302.12288

 

Science Credit of image taken by Galileo: NASA/JPL-Caltech

 

Choice of processing method (2D/3D) and process execution : Thomas Thomopoulos

 

Credit for ZoeDepth: Shariq Farooq Bhat, Reiner Birkl, Diana Wofk, Peter Wonka, Matthias Müller

 

See it in 3D on Sketchfab :

 

Europa - a moon of Jupiter by tthomopoulos on Sketchfab

 

Citation of Nasa photojournal about 2D original version :

 

"This mosaic shows a portion of one of the highest-resolution images captured of Jupiter's moon Europa in the 1990s by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. This picture is cropped from a larger image. These are the kind of features studied by scientists who recently modeled how moonquakes may trigger landslides on icy moons circling Jupiter and Saturn.

Visible here are possible fault scarps (like those found on Earth when tectonic activity breaks the crust) with smooth slopes and nearby rubble that may have been produced by small landslides triggered by the faulting activity".

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