The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
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Ted writes:
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were fitted and stacked over it. Doing this provided a way to
reduce noise without destroying detail, although some noise removal
was still necessary. Deconvolution and sharpening was then applied,
as well as processing to remove the remaining noise."