lid (Aaron Baken) wrote in message ...
I don't understand why are these pictures in black and white?
Why? Don't they have a technology to send color pictures?
Could someone explain?


Color pics will come in today (Jan 4). The initial data dump
is designed to provide the most information possible in the
shortest amount of time - in case the thing stops working and
also to allow the rover folks to start route planning.

That is the really cool part of this mission. Instead of
repeated views of the same scene, we will soon be watching
the rover head toward one of those horizons.

- Ed Kyle