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To: RightWhale
The presentation of combined color bands is normally adjusted to whichever false colors best show certain features.

Yes, but we're trying for the real color of the rocks here.  For that to distort the whites to pink and every other known value to red doesn't jibe.
36 posted on 01/21/2004 4:51:16 PM PST by gcruse (http://gcruse.typepad.com/)
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To: gcruse
>Yes, but we're trying for the real color of the rocks here. For that to distort the whites to pink and every other known value to red doesn't jibe.

Maybe NASA doesn't want everyone to realize that Mars has a blue sky.

38 posted on 01/21/2004 4:54:49 PM PST by Dialup Llama
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To: gcruse
[ Yes, but we're trying for the real color of the rocks here. For that to distort the whites to pink and every other known value to red doesn't jibe. ]

You can get a bot to Mars and cannot get the colors of the pictures right ? seems strange.. just sending and receiveing the pictures is far more complicated..

58 posted on 01/21/2004 5:34:37 PM PST by hosepipe
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