Color Images from Mars Rovers

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.netTitle: Color Images from Mars RoversAuthor: Bob WebsterRelease Date: April 19, 2004 [eBook #12082]Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: US-ASCII***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COLOR IMAGES FROM MARS ROVERS***Thanks to Bob Webster for making these images available. They are recombinations of images withdifferent colored filters. All images are courtesy of NASA/JPL and in the public domain in the UnitedStates.Mars Attacks!I was browsing the NASA web site for photos from the Mars rovers, butmost of them are black and white. Then I noticed they have the raw imagesposted that can be combined into color photos, so I combined a bunch ofthem into "living color." Here they are: Spirit images Opportunity imagesThe color is not perfect on these, but it should be in the neighborhood.There are a lot of variables. The cameras are calibrated differently fromtime to time, there are different bandwidths available in different images,and the sun is at different angles.In these photos, 3 to 6 images were taken, one after another, usingdifferent bandwidth filters. There may be 5 minutes pass from the first tothe last image, so a shadow may move a little bit during that time. Aninteresting effect of this ...