What is the difference between .vicar and .bmp?
- Name
- VICAR Image
- Bitmap Image
- Extension
- .vicar
- .bmp
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Microsoft
- Description
- Raster image format developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; stores an image that has been taken on a mission by NASA's spacecraft; also contains information that describes the structure and type of data along with a history of processing that has been done to the image.
- A BMP file is an uncompressed raster image comprised of a rectangular grid of pixels. It contains a file header (bitmap identifier, file size, width, height, color options, and bitmap data starting point) and bitmap pixels, each with a different color.
- MIME Type
- image/x-vicar
- image/bmp
- Sample
- sample.vicar
- sample.bmp
- Wikipedia
- .vicar on Wikipedia
- .bmp on Wikipedia