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13. Most recent Mars landers didn't even have standard color cameras.

Thu Apr 1, 2021, 08:13 AM

Apr 2021

They would roughly approximate color by mixing some odd wavelengths of visible and infrared light.

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It looks like copper. lagomorph777 Mar 2021 #1

If it is copper, does the blue color indicate oxidation? Midnight Writer Mar 2021 #2

Hmmm, now that you mention it, that makes no sense. lagomorph777 Mar 2021 #4

Looks like copper oxidation blugbox Mar 2021 #3

No oxygen on Mars...so what does it mean? lagomorph777 Mar 2021 #5

Yeah either the color is different than what we are seeing... blugbox Mar 2021 #6

You think so? Sometimes (and they specify) various Celestial... electric_blue68 Mar 2021 #7

Most recent Mars landers didn't even have standard color cameras. lagomorph777 Apr 2021 #13

Right, all those little blue pebbles around it soothsayer Mar 2021 #9

Looks like mudstone with fossilized wormholes to me. denbot Mar 2021 #8

I assume the laser holes are the teeny tiny holes in the middle right part? LymphocyteLover Mar 2021 #10

Yes, very straight line of wee holes. I was confused at first soothsayer Mar 2021 #11

NASA is amazing. n/t Calista241 Apr 2021 #15