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[Guest_spaceffm_*]

Sol 676

Finally i found out how to create true color images our of 3 different filtered b/w images.

Here my first, of course not so spectacular, processed true color image of Mars, Sol 676 PanCam

[RNeuhaus]

(UP) Good coloring and maybe it is the authentic color...

Rodolfo

[dvandorn]

The NASA publication that covers the Viking missions has a very nice appendix discussing the "true colors" of Mars. What spaceffm has come up with is an almost perfect example of what that appendix would call "What Mars would look like under Earth outdoor lighting conditions."

This look is more contrasty and a little bluer than how the same scene would appear on Mars. The actual in-situ look is a little redder and has less contrast, partially because the diffuse light from the sky is in the yellow-orange range.

But, if Home Plate and the Pitcher's Mound were magically transported into the high desert of the United States southwest, it would look pretty much *exactly* like this.

-the other Doug