12K+ JPEGs from NASA's Artemis II Mission
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- #Image Analysis
- #NASA
- #Space Photography
- NASA's Artemis 2 mission produced 12,217 JPEGs from a 9-day Moon flyby, with 11,362 images (14 GB) successfully downloaded.
- The author used a high-performance workstation with an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X, 96 GB RAM, and specialized tools like Python, DuckDB, and OpenAI's CLIP model for analysis.
- EXIF metadata was extracted and cleaned, revealing details on cameras (Nikon D5 and Z9), lenses, aperture, exposure, and timestamps across the dataset.
- Images were classified using zero-shot learning into five categories: moon (7,028), stars (1,490), earth (1,250), blank (1,030), and glare (564).
- Analysis included generating contact sheets per label, examining camera settings, lens usage, and exposure parameters, with insights into specific images like nighttime views of Spain.