How the Red Planet Came Down With the Pink Blues
New York Times: February 10, 2004: Pasadena, Calif. - It hardly seemed a surprise that the panoramic photograph of Gusev Crater, the landing site of NASA's Mars rover Spirit, showed a red landscape. After all, Mars is called the red planet because it looks red, a hue imparted by rust in the planet's ubiquitous dust. But did NASA fiddle with the image to make it look that red? As Mars buffs have pointed out in recent weeks on Web sites like Slashdot.org, a closer look reveals that parts of the rover itself, in the foreground, are oddly garish. Even the color chips placed on the rover to calibrate the color photographs had shifted. What should be bright blue is instead bright pink; what should be bright green is brown. weblink
New York Times: February 10, 2004: Pasadena, Calif. - It hardly seemed a surprise that the panoramic photograph of Gusev Crater, the landing site of NASA's Mars rover Spirit, showed a red landscape. After all, Mars is called the red planet because it looks red, a hue imparted by rust in the planet's ubiquitous dust. But did NASA fiddle with the image to make it look that red? As Mars buffs have pointed out in recent weeks on Web sites like Slashdot.org, a closer look reveals that parts of the rover itself, in the foreground, are oddly garish. Even the color chips placed on the rover to calibrate the color photographs had shifted. What should be bright blue is instead bright pink; what should be bright green is brown. weblink
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