NASA Colorizes Its Photos

APOD: June 12, 1999 - Venus: Just Passing By
.... Each day a different image or photograph of our ... Venus: Just Passing By
Credit: Galileo Project, JPL, NASA. ... This colorized image of Venus was
recorded by the ...
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THE SOLAR SYSTEM
.... My photograph of the waxing crescent Moon and Venus ... searched out the
planets from Venus to Saturn ... Digitized, sanitized, and colorized images of
every planet ...
darkskyinstitute.org/solar.html cached

Space Today Online - Exploring the Red Planet - Mars Global ...
.... (how nasa colorized the image ... NASA scientists think Mars Observer's
propulsion system failed, blasting the ... has a battery of cameras to
photograph the entire ...
http://www.spacetoday.org/SolSys/Mar...lSurveyor.html cached


SciScoop || Unique Photo From Mars Orbit Captures Earth, Moon, ...
.... and white, and then Earth was colorized by converting ... a complete
description of how the photograph was processed ... the Mars Orbiter Camera
for NASA, using spare ...
www.sciscoop.com/story/2003/5/22/124910/033 cached

Full Moon
.... I wanted to go to the Moon and photograph there -- but the ... of the
landscape below are "constructed" and colorized from raw digital data: NASA's
"false radar ...
www.projectfullmoon.com/qa.html cached

html head /headbodypre Picture Gallery Topic Side 2 ...
.... 14-11] 1197 51395 Rings of Uranus, colorized [ETU.14 ... NASA scanner
screen [ETU.19-14] 14122 51565 Parts of ... of [ETU.3-12a] 31721 51611 Moon
photograph compared to ...
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Mars Global Surveyor
.... The colorized photograph shows Earth from 86 million miles away ... today
by the camera team for NASA's Mars Global ... planet has some similarity to
Earth and Venus. ...
www.marsnews.com/missions/mgs/ cached

UFO MAN Contemplates ALL the Planets
.... This colorized picture of Venus was taken on February ... the thermal
emission imaging system of NASA's 2001 Mars ... Space Telescope was able to
photograph Uranus in ...
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Pioneer 10 Virtual Conference Transcript
.... This is a serial photograph employs another technology very ... we had
Pioneers 6s which is what NASA Ames started ... This is the colorized version,
Ted Turner got to ...
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Astronomy Stamps
.... On the bottom you see NASA's Compton g-ray ... have been processed, and in
some cases colorized, for scientific ... A 1949 black-and-white photograph of
Hubble, posing ...
www.wncc.net/courses/aveh/lecture/briefmark.htm cached

Aerospace Scientific Research on photos of the surface of Mars
.... Photos courtesy of NASA, enhanced, corrected & colorized by Mark Williams
.... The Cydonia photograph is a somewhat fuzzy image captured from extreme
altitude ... nasa. ...
http://www.scientific.co.uk/aerospac...urfacemars.htm cached

Sagan Medal Address
.... by journalists and media people to photograph, he just ... an ex-scientist
astronaut from NASA) who suggested ... Now, they are colorized to this bright
orange color. ...
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up and colorized. ... Replace sentence ?While a photograph can?in a digital
form.? with ...
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consumptive.org
.... NASA's highly detailed color images of the "blue marble ... at 21:41. This
is Not a Photograph - works by ... setting, cable release, tripod mount,
colorized bodies, and ...
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html head /headbodypreNewsgroups: alt.religion. ...
.... when they arrived, they looked just like the photograph in the ... that my
imvention had significant use for > NASA and utilized ... (and colorized
iMacs) Battlestar ...
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These all use the word "colorized" in a broad, popular sense. In no way was
any color arbitrarily added to these images---that is, in the way that, say,
an old black and white movie would be colorized, or an old family photo
tinted. It is simpler to use this word than "color enhancement", which is
really what is going on but requires more explanation. Several of the
websites you quote (and please note that most of these are not NASA sites)
do include an explanation of what they mean by the word "colorize": that the
colors were manipulated for scientific purposes. I take it you just listed
everything you could find with the words "NASA" and "colorize" in them, but
did not bother to read what you found?

What you are trying to establish, I take it, is that NASA takes B&W images
and "fakes" the color in them. This is not the case at all. And before you
ask: this is something about which I have considerable experience. I am an
author and illustrator specializing in astronomical subjects (my most recent
series of books just received the 2003 American Institute of Physics Award
of Excellence for Science Writing). As an illustrator, I have worked with
NASA imaging and imagery for 30 years and have intimate knowledge of the
processes involved. I have handled the raw images as they have come directly
from the spacecraft and know precisely what happens to them in the process
of enhancement and why this enhancement is done (for one thing, it is
important to me when creating an illustration to depict a place as it really
looks and not as it appears in an enhanced image). There are a vast number
of ways in which the information contained in a photo can be extracted by
such manipulation, some of which involve converting portions of a B&W image
into color by means of filters, computers, etc. But this is done in order to
enhance features for scientific study, not to introduce arbitrary colors.
Perhaps the closet that NASA comes to doing what you seem to want to prove
is in many of its radar images of the surface of Venus, which are often
reproduced in an overall orangish-yellow tint.

RM

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Etc. etc.

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Your point is?