Has NASA's MESSENGER gone color blind?
On Jan 20, 10:33 am, "du" wrote:
"Don Stauffer in Minnesota" wrote in ... On Jan 19, 4:24 pm, BradGuth wrote:
So, where exactly are those true colors of Mercury?
Perhaps MESSENGER's color imaging potential can be fixed while on the
fly, prior to eventually returning for their full orbital mission of
mapping Mercury gets under way.
. - Brad Guth
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.
There was plenty of flyby time for accommodating at least a few full
color images.
- Brad Guth
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