http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spi ri t/20040130a/Spirit_Sol26_Pancam-B006R1.jpg
Hiya,
the above two pictures as of 0918 GMT shows the calibration target on spirit,
The calibration target is in true colour, i.e. the blue IS blue
Why dont they put paid to the conspiracy theorists once and for all, a little l'espion digital camera only weighs a few grammes, bung one of them on the lander:-)
If you check the RGB values of the red part of the colour calibrator that should be blue, its pretty obvious that someone's 'painted' the calibration chart to screw up any reverse filtering
Run this simple check on the pads, ignore the outer few pixlels, those values will be altered by teh jpeg compresion
firstly, lets check the top right filter, the green one,
The GREEN PAD varies from around 93 to 51 on the outer edge
Blue hovers around 17-20
red hovers around 98-100
BLACK PAD, (bottom left)
red goes from 51 to 79,
green from 20 to 36
blue from 5 to about 10!
RED PAD(top right)
red hovers between 120-125
green 76-81
blue 23-28
BLUE PAD (bottom right)
red 178-179
green 32-36
blue 29-31
WHY is there such a reduced spread of colours on this particular pad, when the others (with exception of the red) show a bigger spread.
WHY is the blue content spread of ALL the pads SIGNIFICANLTY reduced compared to the other values
WHY is the spread on the black pad so marked for the Red and Green, but not for blue...forgive me for being cynical, but i would hve thought, looking at this, that the blue component had been compressed and reduced, and a red blob painted over the blue pad!
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/rover-images/jan-3 0-2004/Spirit_Sol26_med.jpg
i ri t/20040130a/Spirit_Sol26_Pancam-B006R1.jpg
:-)
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/sp
Hiya,
the above two pictures as of 0918 GMT shows the calibration target on spirit,
The calibration target is in true colour, i.e. the blue IS blue
Why dont they put paid to the conspiracy theorists once and for all, a little l'espion digital camera only weighs a few grammes, bung one of them on the lander
If you check the RGB values of the red part of the colour calibrator that should be blue, its pretty obvious that someone's 'painted' the calibration chart to screw up any reverse filtering Run this simple check on the pads, ignore the outer few pixlels, those values will be altered by teh jpeg compresion firstly, lets check the top right filter, the green one, The GREEN PAD varies from around 93 to 51 on the outer edge Blue hovers around 17-20 red hovers around 98-100 BLACK PAD, (bottom left) red goes from 51 to 79, green from 20 to 36 blue from 5 to about 10! RED PAD(top right) red hovers between 120-125 green 76-81 blue 23-28 BLUE PAD (bottom right) red 178-179 green 32-36 blue 29-31 WHY is there such a reduced spread of colours on this particular pad, when the others (with exception of the red) show a bigger spread. WHY is the blue content spread of ALL the pads SIGNIFICANLTY reduced compared to the other values WHY is the spread on the black pad so marked for the Red and Green, but not for blue ...forgive me for being cynical, but i would hve thought, looking at this, that the blue component had been compressed and reduced, and a red blob painted over the blue pad!