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Authored by: Nick_UK on Thursday, June 20 2013 @ 11:34 AM EDT |
If it wasn't for NASA/USSR/the cold war, we would never had
gone to the moon,
or have robots on Mars and landers on
venus ~ let alone the rest of the
stuff. OK, maybe now it
seems dumbed down a lot, but I think that is because
people
are not interested anymore and NEED to be able to read and
see dumbed
down images to understand it (i.e. in the
60's/70's etc. it was really a WOW
time - b&w images,
fragmented sound et al- I know, I was there). The only
time
people say WOW now is when a new game comes out, or Internet
speeds
increase.
And you complain about colour calibration on images 40 years
later. Phuff.
BTW, see this:
Venus,
in B&W - a real
WOW
Nick
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Authored by: cricketjeff on Thursday, June 20 2013 @ 03:35 PM EDT |
Except in sandstorms, Mars has a pale blue sky, reddish-brown dirt, and grayish
rocks with blue-green patches on them.
Trouble is ...
That ain't necessarily so, more or less the best anyone seems to be able to do
is that most of the time Mars has a sort of dirty yellow sky (probably due to
the characteristics of the dust, however it changes colour across the sky and
through the day. Colour patches do a really lousy job of getting the right
colour corrections because colours aren't "fixed" head out into a city
street lit with sodium lamps sometime and try to spot the colour of the cars
that pass. You cannot do so accurately our eyes and brains make the colours we
see based on the input from three (or four) sets of cone cells with completely
overlapping colour sensitivities and our own memories and experiences.
NASA, tried their best to get them "right" and found that when
photographic experts got hold of the files they largely disagreed about the
colours the images showed. The dust is largely reddish brown, probably because
of the prevalence of haematite but there are greyish, bluish and yellowish rocks
too, but so far very few distinctively coloured items to get a solid fix on.
After a lot of fuss they now appear to have settled on giving us the colours as
they come out of the camera (aside from brightening them to compensate for the
deliberate under-exposure (it's important not to burn out any bright regions).
Maybe one day we will get a successful European Chinese or Russian lander to
provide alternative images. Until then you are always free to turn your radio
telescope Marsward and intercept the data streams yourself and publish
unadulterated images.
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