NASA Provides First Color Photos of Pluto and Charon
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How.... exciting?
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That is so cool!
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That's...so amazing?
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Enhance!
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I was honestly worried that New Horizons wouldn't have the ability to make colour photographs (or assemble them from across the spectrum). In the past NASA (and the USSR) have sent black and white only visible light cameras to new, exciting places and made us wait 30 years before actually getting a damn colour image. Since Pluto had never been seen before up close, it seemed within the realm of logic that NASA would try to get the least colourful, lowest resolution colours absolutely possible, despite technology to do otherwise existing.
NASA enjoys making things as boring and unexciting as possible, especially in recent decades, making me think maybe the administration's leadership is just all trying to act like someone from a burger joint and trying to get fired by doing a crappy job so they can go on unemployment. Of course I'm being facetious, but you gotta wonder.
ETA: Often when I type NASA, I start to type Microsoft, and that's not a joke, I really do, it must be some deep seeded feeling of disappointment or something I have in both.
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@Reid-Cooper said:
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Yeah, people will think you have busted display or wonder why you have a constant glare on your screen.
This is exciting though. Hubble's photos make it look like it could be reddish. Also, the different chemical compounds on the surface and in the atmosphere are thought to make the planet look reddish. Can't wait until July!
Also, I can't wait for Dawn to get out of the dark side of Ceres. Exciting stuff going on in space this year.
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You mean that got a dust particle on their lens? How nice of them to show us. haha.
