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NASA is obviosly still busy colorizing the images... Imagine being in Arizona, except the ground is reddish - You STILL have a Blue sky. A freaking Blue sky!!! Google it, they admit to doing this. ...This is all such BS. Your gunna tell me a 2.4Billion dollar rover can't sent us back a picture perfect HD? HorseSh|t.
>>NASA - REMOVE THE VAIL
>>NASA - REMOVE THE VAIL
Most say it to be blue around where the sun is, and butterscotch everywhere else, the exact opposite of Earth.
Grew up reading sci fi (Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land being top notch) and dreaming of manned space travel. To live to see us come this far is unbelievable. Congrats to all who helped accomplish this.
of a John Wyndham I read as a kid. Damned if I can remember what its called, but it concerned a probe sent to our planet.
The probe was described as a box on stilts, the size of a car, studded with lenses and articulations, and seemed intelligent...
The probe was described as a box on stilts, the size of a car, studded with lenses and articulations, and seemed intelligent...
Fantastic, Bravo the USA, the yanks sure know how to get things done and this is a major demonstration of the inginuity of the great scientists and engineers of America.
To all those nations and peoples who despise America.....well, watch and learn!
To all those nations and peoples who despise America.....well, watch and learn!
Hey @Moray you're not helping much about what other nations think of America with your comments! It's just a matter of googling about what nationalities are involved in the Mars Curiosity project. As a matter of fact, the weather station used by the Curiosity rover was entirely built in Spain! I take my hat to the US for pulling together all the resources needed (yes, money too!) for such a project, specially in these difficult times we're living.
This has inspired me to a little story: http://marcusspeh.com/2012/08/10/curiosity/ i hope you like it. Leave a comment if you do. Cheers from Berlin.
Not diminishing the fact that we have a rover sending back photos, just lamenting the hype. I am just not seeing color in these. If the techs have to "colorize" them, what would be the point of saying they are "color" photos. Excellence in engineering on display.
These are not color images, they are stereo (3D) images to be viewed through spectacles that have a red filter on the left lens and a blue filter on the right lens (or vice versa). Full color 3D images are coming...
I grew up hearing stories of Apollo 11 and the other moon landings. As a kid I saw the original space shuttle take to the skies and dreams of flying to the moon in the space shuttle followed. Of course even for the most ambitious scientist this was still just a dream. Now my nephew talks about being the first person on Mars and I tell him Yes, you might actually be the first person on Mars. We really do live in a wondrous age. The argument is not Do we send people to another planet? But Which planet do we go to? It is like the early explorers trying to decide Do we sail North or South?
I only have one question, and that is: If lenses got full of dust in the landing, Who cleaned them up for the clear shots?
It probably has a few so It can open and close them as time passes and they get dirty.
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