The medium quality photo uses only 4.3% of the storage space required for the uncompressed image, but has little noticeable loss of detail or visible artifacts.

A full, uncompressed image would take 44 minutes to send down to the ground.

As a normal uncompressed image it would occupy 595MB of disk space.

The user may be able to choose to view the uncompressed images instead, if desired.

Type 1 Encoding 1 AlphaDepth 0 (uncompressed paletted image with no alpha)

Type 1 Encoding 1 AlphaDepth 8 (uncompressed paletted image with 8-bit alpha)

Even at this high ratio, quality is excellent with little visible degradation from the uncompressed image.

A single uncompressed image uses up to 28 Gbit.

Lossless compression algorithms reduce file size while preserving a perfect copy of the original uncompressed image.

Lossy compression algorithms preserve a representation of the original uncompressed image that may appear to be a perfect copy, but it is not a perfect copy.