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Curiosity's Latest High-Res Photo Looks Like Earth
New submitter bbianca127 writes "Curiosity sent a picture down to us, and it looks a lot like Earth. Actually, the picture's color quality has been changed — to human eyes, the landscape would look a lot more reddish. Still, it looks remarkably like the southwestern United States (bringing to mind the Arrested Development quote about how Lucille Bluth would rather be dead in California than alive in Arizona)." Definitely a different sense of the place than the one given by the reddish-brown posters I remember from elementary school.
Definitely a different sense of the place than the one given by the reddish-brown posters I remember from elementary school.
Yeah, damn those elementary schools for showing you unedited pictures of the cosmos. You can really only inspire grade-school children by lying to them with photoshopped pictures. Maybe NASA should rename the mast camera BieberCam and photoshop in very small pictures of Bieber hiding behind a rock, you know, drum up some interest in science by... doing unscientific things, like photo alteration.
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Why do they keep showing us these altered photos. We paid billions in tax dollars because we want to see the damn planet, not a photohopped image.
The "likeness" of earth isn't patented?