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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."
The photos clearly have been doctored because they don't match the scenery in "Total Recall".
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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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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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.
Mode (3) smart-aleck mode. Press * to return to main menu.
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_
Violets are Red,
Roses are Blue,
JPL saw it,
and now you will too.
Video Game cheats, hints a
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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People like you
Make such a todo
'bout images they ibue
With an altered hue
'Tis nothing that's new
This thing they do
With pix they do screw
Boo hoo, boo hoo.
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