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Explaining the Mars Photo Colorization
TaddyPorter writes "I've seen stories going around the 'net in regards to NASA editing photos of mars. Mainly, the sundial used for calibration showed different colors than the dial on mars. While a wide range of explanations were taking shape, the Pancam Payload Element Lead for the mission, Jim Bell of Cornell University, was kind of enough to explain the color differences."
Actually, now it makes alot of sense. But that still won't stop the conspiracy kooks from claiming otherwise.
No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. - Cmdr. Susan Ivanova
Supposedly they have a picture of Martians humping Beagle2, but they edited it to look like a plain stewn with rocks.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
If blue appears pink on Mars, what is the real color of the little green guys?
I don't trust him.
His website was taken down immediatly after slashdot posted this.
His "truth" couldn't stand up to the slashdoting scrutiny!
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I mean, I'm color blind.
That's because they're hiding the power lines, and the highway far out back. If you look closer, you'll see one of those rocks has a digital watch on his arm, too..
Karma: Bad (but who really cares anyway?)
This just in: most of the images from Hubble are also colorized, apparently because some people took offense to not being able to see in the infrared. Additionally there appears to be a hint of the same fiasco at many radio telescopes.
I don't know what you guys are talking about. Those colors all look fine to me. Mars looks exactly like it did when I was last there...
That's just paranoid. The real reason they are colorising the images is because the Viking landings were faked, and now all the images from successful landings have to be altered to look like the Viking images, just to hide the sinister truth.
If I seem short sighted, it is because I stand on the shoulders of midgets
They could have, by why would they? If you want accurate amd controllable spectral sensitiviy then you need and imager with known response and (preferably dichroic) filters with known passbands. A monochromatic, specially doped sensor with excellent S/N ratio and carefully measured characteristics would seem appropriate for a scientific imager.
Has it ever occured to you that you own personal current wet dream tech fantasy might have fuck-all to do with NASA's scientific requirements?
That was classic intercourse!
Well, if you zoom in even further, you'll find that everything is made up of tiny squares of different colors. The odd thing about it is that they are COMPLETELY square, as if the moon was built from Lego bricks or something. Clearly there is something going on here.
Leopards.... I'd expect more from a /. user....
"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance." - Thomas Sowell
Can anyone explain to me why the horizon of the hi-res images is bitmapped [stair-stepped] ?
The truth is out. Mars is made of Legos!
Table-ized A.I.
Or else what, they're racist? "Alternate coloring", wtf.
Imagine what would happen if the Nazi's had Mars probes. They would dink around with the colors to make them 'Arien' pure.
And, the Soviets would probably make it even redder to match their flag.
The UN would make it all gray to not offend anybody.
John Lennon would make it Psychodelic.
Michael Jackson would make it increasingly paler on each successive mission.
Table-ized A.I.
The Red-Eye Reduction setting doesn't work on Martians then.
You don't need a lab to make mud.