OK, I am a self-professed geek. I watched with great anticipation as NASA pulled off the most incredible Mars rover landing on the weekend.
Truly remarkable feat of engineering for sure to land this thing right.
And was looking forward to seeing the first new photos of Mars once it successfully touched down.
Of course the world was treated to this:
It is a stunning photo in terms of what it means and represents, but it bugs me that every 5 year old kid can take a realistic photo with their phone, etc. these days and NASA still feeds us low-tech black and white photos! And worse yet, the color photos that they eventually release are color-corrected, apparently wrong!
Here are some articles about the true colors of Mars, which is not all red.
http://mars-news.de/color/blue.html
http://www.goroadachi.com/etemenanki...ddencolors.htm
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/43ancie..._Color_01.html
I just thought it was an interesting thing to have one of the most fascinating subjects in human history (if any of us managed to take a photo of Mars while standing on it, we would win the Pulitzer Prize), but we get old black and whites, or fake color corrected photos from NASA. Photography has come so far, but apprently, for $2.5 billion dollars, they couldn't just stick a D3x on the thing and have it send back the raw file? ha ha ha
I'm sure that we'll get some stunning new photos shortly from the Rover but i just hope they are not color corrected. I think we have evolved past being treated like children.
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Originally Posted by rhommel
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