Mars Flower or bit of plastic?

Platapus · 01-07-13, 07:53 PM

This is one of the problems with extraterrestrial photography. Pictures taken on Mars (with its sun angles and atmosphere) will often look different from pictures taken on Earth (with its sun exposure and atmosphere)

For stuff like this, you really need multiple photographs taken at different angles and different times in order to properly identify things.

In this image, I can easily see some exposed ore that halates (glares) in that combination of sun exposure and atmosphere. But with one image, and a reproduced one at that, it is impossible to determine what is or is not "there".

01-07-13, 07:53 PM	#2
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,386 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	This is one of the problems with extraterrestrial photography. Pictures taken on Mars (with its sun angles and atmosphere) will often look different from pictures taken on Earth (with its sun exposure and atmosphere) For stuff like this, you really need multiple photographs taken at different angles and different times in order to properly identify things. In this image, I can easily see some exposed ore that halates (glares) in that combination of sun exposure and atmosphere. But with one image, and a reproduced one at that, it is impossible to determine what is or is not "there". __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.