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> I don't expect to get access to all the data that is sent back - though - as it is from the public purse - I think it should be made available. You can indee
by schoen 3y ago
> I don't expect to get access to all the data that is sent back - though - as it is from the public purse - I think it should be made available.
You can indeed get the actual data from this instrument!
https://wispr.nrl.navy.mil/wisprdata https://wispr.nrl.navy.mil/wisprdata
> How difficult would it be to have a colour camera?!?! I have a crap mobile and it has 3 cameras! And one on the front! When colour cameras have been available to everyone for so long, its simply inconceivable that NASA can never provide decent imagery!
They do have missions that have great color cameras, like on Mars!
The James Webb Space Telescope also produces great color imagery, but it's normally presented in false color because its camera is biased toward the infrared.
https://webb.nasa.gov/ https://webb.nasa.gov/
Here's one of their popular justifications for that:
https://webbtelescope.org/webb-science/the-observatory/infrared-astronomy https://webbtelescope.org/webb-science/the-observatory/infra...
In that diagram you see that the Webb sees more colors than the human eye, but most of them are ones that our eyes don't see. They have various arguments that the colors that it does see are more interesting and useful for seeing very faraway stuff.