Process on an image processed by Gerald - Enhancement of colors

📸 NASA/JPL/SWRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt / Thomas Thomopoulos

    • ChaoticNeutralCzechEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Hate to break it to you but from what I can tell this was captured with JunoCam, a visible-light camera. So an “unaltered” version would have familiar colors, and this is already edited.

      • Fuck spez@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        I mean, aren’t most images from orbiters and space telescopes heavily processed before the public ever sees them?

        • ChaoticNeutralCzechEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          Of course, what they call “camera” might be a high-res spectrometer, plus there may be stacking, tiling, digital optics correction etc. However, the camera did capture a visible-light picture so it has a “natural” interpretation (you can convert it into a “human POV”) and this is not that. It probably does not even convey extra information (such as exact wavelengths our cones cannot distinguish) so it’s akin to just using a solarization filter on a normal color CMOS camera photo.