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During Apollo, color cameras were sent to the moon (both photographic and video cameras). But the "disease" you're pointing at rings a bell in my mind: the Juno
by dr_zoidberg 7y ago
During Apollo, color cameras were sent to the moon (both photographic and video cameras). But the "disease" you're pointing at rings a bell in my mind: the JunoCam.
If it had been for the science team, Juno would've gone without it. It was added as a late-time PR addition, based on hardware from a previous mission (the descent imager of the Curiosity rover). And yet, it has given some of the most astounding images from Jupiter we've ever seen.
- baq 7y agoit was designed to do exactly that though, those images simply aren't that interesting from a scientific perspective - but the scientists finally understood that public perception of science is at least in the same order of magnitude of importance as scientific results themselves.