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Basil
Jan 20th, '09, 10:25 AM
Bonestell Panorama (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090120.html)

Words cannot express...
Jomster
Jan 20th, '09, 12:23 PM
Now that is very nice!

Make a good Star Hero handout if your printer's got enough red ink! :)
Basil
Jan 20th, '09, 06:25 PM
Make a good Star Hero handout if your printer's got enough red ink! :)
"Why is the north-northwest part of Mars gray?"



:winkgrin:
Curufea
Jan 20th, '09, 06:38 PM
Why is it red? Has it been tinted?
Basil
Jan 20th, '09, 07:02 PM
Why is it red? Has it been tinted?

Well, as it says, "The image color has been closely matched to what a human would see," so that may be a "yes".
Curufea
Jan 20th, '09, 07:43 PM
Well, as it says, "The image color has been closely matched to what a human would see," so that may be a "yes".

I had heard that NASA first tinted its images red because they assumed that was what it should look like from the surface - and were disappointed with the brown images they received, presuming it was a camera fault.
Cancer
Jan 21st, '09, 08:13 AM
It looks kinda like Grant County. Though it appears to have more night life.... :rolleyes:
DusterBoy
Jan 21st, '09, 08:41 AM
That's a wonderful image, it really is.

In response to the business of tinting - I heard that the Martian sky in the original Viking photos was tinited blue, apparently because it was thought that no-one would believe in/be interested in a planet with a pale-orangey sky.
Curufea
Jan 21st, '09, 11:44 AM
Heh.

All I need to do to get martian landscape is take some photos out at Broken Hill (http://images.google.com.au/images?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&hs=bAk&q=broken%20hill&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi) or Coober Pedy (http://images.google.com.au/images?q=Coober+Pedy&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi)
Mind you it would be a bit of a drive.