Pluto
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PeoplesElbow
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Are these real colors or false color?
It looks a little bit "hope and changey", don't it?
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Most of the photos are color enhanced. Sensors find variances in texture or chemical composition, and colors are used to show the differences. Like all the very deep space pictures of nebulae and such, the actual received images are in the infra-red or other non-visual range spectrum.
PeoplesElbow
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I was thinking a blue ball that was scratched until red.
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There's a cream for that.
Bengay?
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No, never.
1stGenSMIB
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I think those are real color, taken by New Horizons.
New Horizons
New Horizons was the first spacecraft to explore Pluto and its five moons up close and, later, made the first close exploration of a Kuiper Belt Object.
www.nasa.gov
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Clem72
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Nasa says the photo was colorized. Just like they done with the old B&W hollywood movies which actually used a process developed by NASA for the Apollo missions.
New Horizons
New Horizons was the first spacecraft to explore Pluto and its five moons up close and, later, made the first close exploration of a Kuiper Belt Object.
www.nasa.gov
PeoplesElbow
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8Nasa says the photo was colorized. Just like they done with the old B&W hollywood movies which actually used a process developed by NASA for the Apollo missions.
New Horizons
New Horizons was the first spacecraft to explore Pluto and its five moons up close and, later, made the first close exploration of a Kuiper Belt Object.
Makes sense the original would be monochrome, that makes the camera more sensitive to light.
Annoying fact, all CCD and CMOS sensors are actually monochrome
Grumpy
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Now you know why Paul Simon was singing about Kodachrome back in the 70s.