[lbryce]

I mean, why bother sending actual analog objects so far away and at such great expense. We might just as well photo shop everything.

When the day finally does come and extra-terrestrials are ready to meet us, there won't be a photographic team taking ten thousand shots the way Life Magazine used to do it. They'll just give us their photoshop files.

[PapaBear3625]

I mean, why bother sending actual analog objects so far away and at such great expense. We might just as well photo shop everything.

Pointing a digital camera directly at the Sun is not good for the digital camera. Yes, they could have a sun filter on it, but the point of the exercise is to take pics of the Mars landscape, not the Sun.