January 22nd 08, 08:40 PM
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Has NASA's MESSENGER gone color blind?
Plonk.
"BradGuth" wrote in message
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On Jan 21, 11:25 am, Rui Pedro Mendes Salgueiro
wrote:
In sci.space.history Gary Edstrom wrote:
The pictures from Messenger are for scientific purposes, NOT to wow
the
public. To get a color picture would require taking separate shots
through each of 3 color filters. That would require extra time during
this EXTREMELY short duration pass of Mercury.
Then I suppose you will be upset to learn that they used 11 filters:
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/gallery/....php?gallery_i...
The last thing these infowar and disinformation spewing *******s of
NASA's science ****ology ever want to hear is that I'm right. So, you
should expect to get ignored, banished or given a good amount of
whatever lethal flak they can muster.
"The WAC is equipped with 11 different narrow-band filters, and this
image was taken in filter 7, which is sensitive to light near the red
end of the visible spectrum (750 nm). This view,
also imaged through the remaining 10 WAC filters,
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is from the first set of images taken following MESSENGER's closest
approach with Mercury."
When Messenger settles down into orbit in 2011, they will have more
time to gather full color pictures.
A lot of things can happen in 3 years.
Besides, during its closest approach, it was moving so fast
that the 3 separate pictures required for color would probably not
have
aligned perfectly.
It seems to me that it should be relatively easy to correct that in
software (on Earth).
Lots of local PhotoShop efforts can manage to correct for most
anything, as long as those original images are in focus and without
too much motion distortion to start off with.
How the freaking hell did they manage to accomplish all of those Earth
flyby color frames so quickly?
Its time near Mercury was just too valuable to waste
on all those extra pictures who's primary purpose would be for public
consumption.
Remember that the taxes that pay for the mission are paid by the general
public, of which the planetary scientists are a tiny minority.
There is the saying "No Buck Rogers, no bucks", and there should also
be the saying "No pretty pictures, no bucks".
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- Brad Guth
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