And because I'm still such a nice guy, we have this following
contribution by our very own "kT", but notice how all the usenet
lights tend to go out whenever there's another not so insignificant
speck of truth to behold.
"Japan First Back To The Moon!" / kT
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.s...8a85929879b6a0
I believe that topic entro is absolutely right on the money, at least
Japan being of the first other than Russian or those of our various
lunar orbital missions, however China is not exactly sitting on their
extremely wise old butts, are they.
Here's the latest HDTV images, except having those moon surface
saturations of somewhat badly skewed color fully removed. In other
words, our moon is getting depicted as entirely color blocked, as
limited to gray-sacle, and only Earth is getting artificially
accommodated in full living color.
http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/11/20071113_kaguya_e.html
http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/11/img...kaguya_01l.jpg
http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/11/img...kaguya_02l.jpg
Here's those unfiltered original images of off-color saturation
imposed tint, via all of that pesky secondary or recoil worth of such
a bluish/violet hue look-see at our naked moon (images 01 ~ 13):
http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/10/20071021_kaguya_e.pdf
http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/10/img..._kaguya_01.jpg
http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/10/img..._kaguya_03.jpg
http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/10/img..._kaguya_05.jpg
http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/10/img..._kaguya_10.jpg
http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/10/img..._kaguya_11.jpg
Besides the matter of JAXA/NHK having only turned on their HDTV color
pixels as for accommodating those pixels of Earth (adjusting gamma to
4x alone gives us that sort of proof, or otherwise by simply replacing
their image black with most any other color), though it's still every
bit worth an as-is look-see for taking notice as to how extremely dark
and otherwise somewhat of an average coal like 0.11 albedo or actually
of a slightly sooty darker kind of dusty deep soft lunar terrain of
such minimal albedo, meaning that it's very poorly reflective of the
visible spectrum, as otherwise correctly representing that which our
extremely cosmic dusty and electrostatic charged moon really is, as
well as for having been so clearly HVTV imaged w/o those pesky color
saturations except for their accommodating within the very same HDTV
FOV as hosting a very colorful Earth, as having been illuminated by
the very same raw solar spectrum that has unavoidably skewed the moon
itself by the unfiltered and subsequent excess amounts of those violet
and UV photons, of which CCDs are by rights extremely sensitive to.
Now then, and I'm quite honestly serious about this next part; do we
see anything of that naked lunar terrain that's looking as though
being the least bit NASA/Apollo (65%~75% reflective) 0.65~0.075 albedo
worthy, as though much like a certain guano island as having been
xenon arc lamp spectrum illuminated and otherwise physically modified
in order to suit their supposed moon look, on behalf of those hocus-
pocus Apollo landings? (silly question, as I didn't think so)
Now try to further imagine how much brighter than Earth those little
violet color skewed pixels worth of Venus are going to look.
Actually, with the HDTV's far better than Kodak film DR(dynamic range)
is why the likes of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn should also become part
of those future JAXA/KAGUYA(SELENE) obtained images, along with a few
of those most bright of background stars unless having been
intentionally spectrum filtered out or subsequently PhotoShop
removed. With a proper optical spectrum filter (of which KAGUYA may
not have to work with) is where we'll get to see the true deep golden
brownish color of our moon, along with certain other raw secondary/
recoil photons of those cosmic and local deposited mineral elements
which should become downright interesting, even though color skewed
unless via earthshine because, there's such a great deal of secondary/
recoil UV that'll always tend to saturate most everything into giving
us that somewhat purple/bluish or violet hue or weird tint.
And to think that there's so much more of the truth to come via JAXA/
KAGUYA(SELENE) once those full color spectrum images of the moon are
properly adjusted for their more natural hew saturations, plus those
other instruments start reporting their science data, as well as from
whatever China can uncover and share is just around the very next
corner.
--
Brad Guth