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Old January 20th 08, 08:24 PM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy,sci.skeptic,sci.op-research,rec.photo.digital
Pat Flannery
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Default Has NASA's MESSENGER gone color blind?



du wrote:
This was just a flyby. To get as many pictures as you can get, you
wouldn't want to have to screw with all the filters it would take to get
color photos. Color will probably start with the orbital part of the
mission.


I'm pretty sure this fly-by used all the filters.
Exposure time for each photo certainly didn't need to be much given the
level of illumination provided by the Sun.

Pat