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vic2png: A Python utility for converting PDS images to web-compatible formats

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Overview

This software allows for the conversion of PDS3 IMG and Vicar format images to web-compatible formats such as PNG, JPEG, and TIFF. PDS3 IMGs and Vicar images are raw raster formats commonly used on Mars missions (e.g., M2020 and MSL) and are the primary file format for archiving supported by the PDS Imaging Node. Despite this, there is currently limited first-party support for converting these images to compressed file formats commonly used in operating systems or on the web.