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But here's a "natural-color" image of the same hurricane: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia14945.html http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/
by spacemanaki 13y ago
But here's a "natural-color" image of the same hurricane:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia14945.html http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia1494...
"Images with red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural-color view, which is what the human eye would see if we were there at Saturn."
- btilly 13y agoSo that satellite has that capability. But not all do. Comparing natural color and false color, it is clear to me that false color is more convenient for trying to pick out features in the picture.
- spacemanaki 13y agoI don't think anyone's disputing that false color could be useful to scientists or that we should put cameras on satellites that capture true color images for the benefit of blog posts targeting the general public, and I certainly was not claiming anything like that, being horribly under-qualified. But waxing poetic about "the red rose of Saturn" is a little bit silly IMHO, but it's nothing worse than that... http://www.ciclops.org/view_event/191/The_Red_Rose_Of_Saturn http://www.ciclops.org/view_event/191/The_Red_Rose_Of_Saturn