[meteorite-list] Phoenix Lander and Mars Colors

From: ensoramanda <ensoramanda_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 23:01:31 +0100
Message-ID: <483DD63B.9000509_at_ntlworld.com>

Hi Stirling

Very interesting to see colour calibration charts...but there dont seem
to be any shades of red....any reason for that?

Graham Ensor


Sterling K. Webb wrote:

>Hi,
>
> There is a long-running controversy about the "true"
>colors of Mars. By "true" colors, one essentially means:
>"What would it look like to my human eye if I was standing
>there looking at the Martian landscape?"
>
> The Phoenix Lander can solve this problem. Like the
>rovers, it will have a color calibration target, but a vastly
>improved one, with magnetic protection against dust
>accumulation.
>
> For those of us with the weird hobby of trying to
>reconstruct the "true" colors, here is an image of the color
>calibration target being used at this website:
>http://news.ucf.edu/UCFnews/index?page=article&id=002400410f556ad3011a10e25439031e&mode=news
>You have to click on the tiny black-and-white thumbnail
>in the article to get the picture of the colors to pop up!
>
> You can see the target (twice) on the lander in this
>new photo and compare the "true-ness" of the colors:
>http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/231350main_sol002_runout_color.jpg
>
> Things still need a tiny bit of tweaking, but it's a
>big improvement.
>
>
>Sterling K. Webb
>
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Received on Wed 28 May 2008 06:01:31 PM PDT