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Colorization of Mars Images?
ares2003 writes "There is no scientific reason, why JPL is colorizing Mars in that dull red tint as in their press release images. In the latest panorama image, there is a hint, that they deliberately altered the colors, as the blue and green spots on the color calibration target (the sundial) suddenly converted to bright red and brown. Source of original images: 1, 2 - (for highres replace "br" with "med"). At normal weather conditions, as we have at the moment, there should be a blue sky on Mars and earthlike colors. Furthermore the sky looks overcasted on the pictures as it cannot be considering the sharp shadows on the sundial. If the sky was overcast, then because of diffuse lighting, there would be no shadows. A few years ago, I did an investigation about that very same topic for the Viking and Pathfinder missions."
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I saw a picture of a martian family with placards reading, "Please send our daughter Carly back!"
This explains her recent tech outbursts.
What is this, the tabloid section of slashdot?
The photos clearly have been doctored because they don't match the scenery in "Total Recall".
They're modifying the colours because the spacecraft isn't actually on Mars, it's on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Or maybe Haleakala, where they did Lunar Rover testing. Either one, they're both pretty good places for faking either Moon or Mars landings.
My kids had lots of fun with those airbags, BTW.
You must have missed the news. Ted Turner bought out JPL yesterday.
My, God the submitter needs, to learn how to use commas, properly when he writes, something that hundreds of thousands of people will potentially, read...
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It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
.. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
...it would be more likely that the public would realize that they're just filming this whole shebang out in the Utah desert.
It's a conspiracy. To make people...
BELIEVE THAT MARS IS RED!
Thanks for alerting us to that potential communist menace, senator.
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Right on! And, as we all know, the Martian sky is green. This can be explained by the dust left over from all the money that we've crashed or otherwise blown in past missions on Mars.
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It's been slashdotted so here's a mirror
There will be a new story on how the government conspire to shutdown the mars-news.de website on the 9th of Jan 2004....
coincidentally after this story was posted.
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...what I want to know is:
Why does the Spirit rover have an Atari game console joystick installed on it?
WOULD YOU PLEASE STOP SLASHDOTTING THIS SITE!
I am trying to do some serious research into the truth that has been hidden from my eyes. I finally find a source of hidden knowledge that is better than the one buried under the sphinx, and you geeks have to go and wreck it. _bastards_
Ted Turner now owns JPL through some proxies and dupes. That's why they're colorized.
This is a bit wierd, last night when I was looking at the mars pics I commented on the uncanny similarities with the Arizona desert.
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This should make your head explode. :-)
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and apply auto level and color correction. It looks just like Arizona. Hey! It's a conspiracy!
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I apologize in advance...
You failed to mention his proof of giant hair-like structures on Uranus.
...in an altered hue.
Don't tell them about the stuff buried under the sphinx. Now everyone is going to know about it.
Some of what I say is fact, some is conjecture, the rest I'm just blowing out my ass...you guess.
Ok, I went ahead and did a favor for the slashdot community and mankind. I took the fake colorized images and colored them back to the original infrared colors. You can see the results here. I hope this pleases the original story submitter.
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Am i the only weary eyed programmer who, on a friday afternoon after a week of finger-blistering coding binges, suffered a minor caffiene induced hallicination and read the title as "Colonization of Mars Images"?
Ah, if only the weekend wasn't so short.
There's no grammatical reason, why he keeps using commas in places that don't need them.
It really, makes me stumble over his words.
.sigs are for post^Hers.
Probably to protect the rover in case of this scenario .
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1. Assume people care enough about you to fool you.
2. Add scientific terms and definitions to give credibility, even if it really doesn't have much to do with the theory
3. ???
4. Profit!
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Some people just aren't very good at defensive driving. They need all the HP they can get.
I know that there's no perfect way to maintain color fidelity in any image transmission system, but just for my edification I'd appreciate it if they would release images adjusted best they can to look as the scene would if I were there with my Nikon and a roll of K64.
It's o.k. if you read it in a William Shatner voice.
Yeah, whenever you get in a wreck you should just roll to disbelieve instead.
There's nothing dishonest or misleading about "false color".
Try convincing the University of Michigan Admissions Office of that, the next time you claim your blond dreadlocks make you one of the oppressed.
Well, it didn't work for me, anyway.
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There is no grammatical reason, why the poster has a comma in their post.
are we talking about the colours of the photos, when this guy has much better things on his page, we can discuss, like:
- Space travel in the old Indian Mahabharata Epos
- Was Viking 2 hit by a projectile?
- The connection between Mars and Star Wars Episode 1
- Ruins of acient cities on Mars
- Another(sic!) fiveside pyramide on Mars
You all seem to miss the really important things here!
In other exciting news, this morning they showed some of the mini-TES (thermal emission spectrometer) images. That data is very hard to interpret, so it is ripe for crackpot articles that can be posted on /. with no editorial review.
So well said, I think it should be in bold.
The scientists just haven't had enough time to oversee the photoshopped photos of the set. Just ask the original Capricorn 1 crew, the management can slip up in a number of ways. The next set should have the appropriate difussers over the stage lights. The next "lander" should be 100% CGI if the Capricorn group can pull it all together.
- Tjp
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Well, if you want a close up view just piss off the Godfather galaxy. I hear he once put the horsehead nebula on a now defunct galaxy's pillow.
WWJD.... for a Klondike bar?
... for fuck's sake, lay off the conspiracy theories.
Oh come on !
This was definately a "5"!
So funny it made me search out Walter E. Williams Gift of amnesty against American caucasians of European descent:
The mo' colors - the mo' better!
~Mookie in Spike Lee's: "Do the Right Thing".
Stuff that matters.
...that flys millions of miles to Mars through the vaccum of space, crashes INTO Mars, and takes pictures in environments not encountered on Earth?
For 100$ even? Damn. Do you know a disgruntled NASA employee who steals cameras and sells them for 100 bucks?