These same things apply to satellite images of the Earth as well. Even when you have optical bands that roughly correspond to human eye sensitivity, they're a

These same things apply to satellite images of the Earth as well. Even when you have optical bands that roughly correspond to human eye sensitivity, they're a quite different response pattern. You're also often not working with those wavelength bands in the visualizations you make. Scientific sensors want as "square" a spectral response as possible. That's quite different than human eye response. Getting a realistic RGB visualization from a sensor is very much an artform.