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After recovering from a moment of awe, I wonder why can't the photos be in color if it has full spectrum visible light sensors? From the description: "Ralph c
by WhitneyLand 11y ago
After recovering from a moment of awe, I wonder why can't the photos be in color if it has full spectrum visible light sensors? From the description:
"Ralph consists of three panchromatic (black-and-white) and four color imagers inside its Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC), as well as an infrared compositional mapping spectrometer called the Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array (LEISA)."
- bendykstra 11y agoNew Horizons team member John Spencer answered that question on the Unmanned Spaceflight forum: Yes, this was a single channel image (we wouldn't have held out on you if we'd had color!). Several of our closest MVIC images were b/w rather than color, because of limited time near closest approach- we can take B/W images faster than color ones, and they allow higher-res LORRI riders. We still don't know what color the haze is, though we'll have lower-resolution high-phase color images soon, which will answer that question. http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=8071&st=255&p=226394&#entry226394 http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=8071&...