Mt point is, those sun blobs from NASA are consistent with compression artifacts
but wouldn't the compression artefact's be found throughout the images if it is a algorithm issue?
as in the below image.
and why would ESA and NASA put such a crappy camera system on a billion euro venture in the first place
when the results / images taken by the camera would be a major component of the project's success?
also , if it is an algorithm problem then they should change the algorithm to reflect a little quality and just have a bit more patience waiting the extra second for the images to process.
of course if this was a planned issue then the low quality images makes perfect sense to me.
after all its not a project to find extraterrestrial life
is it.
its a project used to observe the sun.
so why would you need quality images?