The main objective is to provide the scientific community and the public with access to all 1.8 million images recorded by the Deep Space Program Science Experiment, Clementine. Uncompressed this data totals somewhere in the neighborhood of 400,000,000,000 bytes of information. Version 1.5 Version 1.5 is a significant step in the user interface. Sections of a 58 megabyte image created from Clementine data are returned to the user at multiple resolutions, multiple sizes and centered on whatever part of the Moon the user wishes.
Consequently users can zoom in to a location of interest.
This multi- resolution feature is implemented using a wavelet compression technology, known as MrSID, developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory as part of the Sunrise Project. This will eventually allow users to easily obtain PDS versions of the data they are viewing. The first version of the Clementine Lunar Image Browser has received a small upgrade to bring it to version 1.1. Image retrievals will often be performed in half the time that was previously required. Although quite limited in scope in comparison with the plan for the final version it is a significant step forward.