Color Blind Cassini

On 10 Jan 2005 01:58:02 GMT, (RFCOMMSYS) wrote:

Why isn't Cassini taking more color Saturn pics? 99% are b & w.

No they aren't. They are taken through a wide selection of filters. They aren't
processing them into color because color pictures aren't terribly useful
scientifically, and I guess now that data are really pouring in they have better
things to do. The few color images are probably mostly for PR. In some cases, it
probably isn't possible to generate color images simply because there can be too
much movement between filtered frames.

The raw data are available if you want to combine some and produce color images.

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
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