Mars looks like No Country for Old Men

Edit: NO COUNTRY FOR SPACEMEN

also whats up with that wavy blue rock stuff it looks so cool! its interesting how a picture of fucking dirt and rocks can be so enthralling.

Color images from space are actually multiple exposures taken through different filters. For example, you could take three black and white images, shot through red, green, and blue filters, then project them onto a wall using the correct backlighting and you'd see a full-color image. I've heard that the filters used by spacecraft (or in this case the landers) aren't necessarily intended to produce colors that are close to reality. For example, certain colors in images from the Hubble were actually detected as X-rays and then converted to a color like red for human viewing.

The face on mars is absolutely fantastic. Proper Han Solo.

(how else would you pronounce figure? Like...fee gur?)

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/207495main_Spirit.jpg

OH MY GOD THIS PHOTO CLEARLY SHOWS EVIDENCE OF WATER ON MARS

Everyone's ignoring the obvious.

There's a mars base right in the foreground.

Man, what the FUCK kind of camera can take a picture that huge? Shit, im amazed, and also, it really does look like a normal earth desert doesnt it

well all those mars nasa images are panoramic composites of multiple images (I just checked wikipedia, and it seems the rover has 4 cameras that take "a panoramic mosaic of four pancam images high by three wide")

edit: that was just an example for one certain photograph. Either way, there are 3 cameras taking multiple photos and then compositing them together (probably back on earth)

edit2: I think what's more interesting is that NASA has huge TIFF versions of these photographs available for public download that are over 400MB's! Imagine all that data being sent through space via satellites...... from a planet MILLIONS of miles away.

I want that net connection......

I think people would just like to believe so much in life on other planets that they start thinking they are seeing what is not really there. I admit that looks similar to shadow or silhouette of a body, but my reason tells me that it's actually not. optical illusions rule!1

I think people would just like to believe so much in life on other planets that they start thinking they are seeing what is not really there. I admit that looks similar to shadow or silhouette of a body, but my reason tells me that it's actually not. optical illusions rule!1

Pareidolia.  You pretty much hit the nail on the head.  It is a problem, because it really ruins credibility for any geniune evidence, since you have millions of people who think they see the Virgin Mary in a piece of toast.

Pareidolia.  You pretty much hit the nail on the head.  It is a problem, because it really ruins credibility for any geniune evidence, since you have millions of people who think they see the Virgin Mary in a piece of toast.

It was grill cheese!!!!!