The NASA/ESA Cover-Up, page 2

Originally posted by Mizar
They did say the immages were un- alterd but something i just though of was what wave lengths were the pictures taken it we often forget that pictures of science are taken in Gama, raido, x ray, visicible light, adn many more

The first image is from the ESA website, so you can go there and see what kind of equipment they used to take the photo.

I think the photo is this one.

Here's some more Mars photos for you, including the one that shows the red filter they have been using to give the impression that Mars is less habitable than it actually is.

www.abidemiracles.com...

There are no guarantees here--stated nor implied--about the legitimacy of any of these FIFTY-TWO Mars photos. Okay?

There are just three with bad file names. I'll fix 'em later. --Chaiyah

[edit on 9-11-2004 by Emily_Cragg]

[edit on 9-11-2004 by Emily_Cragg]

yes, these images are authentic. As I previously stated, all I adjusted was the gamma.

Here is a BW crop of the Louros Valley area...it is ANYTHING but "normal", as a previous poster so casually stated.

Originally posted by Emily_Cragg
...including the one that shows the red filter....

Actually you need that red filter if you're gonna take color images. (+ blue and green)
Find out how digicams works:
electronics.howstuffworks.com...


Images for scientific use are regularly black and white pics (or black and white pic for every channel: red, green and blue) and different colors are used only to represent entirely different radiation wavelengths.
But general public would keep those boring so images for public use are often made by combining those different grayscale images of "color channels" to produce color image from those three colors, just like your monitor does.
And some of these might be black&white photos colored with image processing software. (Like "Colorize" function in Paint Shop Pro)

From ESA website:


[ESA Mars Express Camera Specs

"High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC)

The HRSC will image the entire planet in full colour, 3D and with a resolution of about 10 metres. Selected areas will be imaged at 2-metre resolution. One of the camera's greatest strengths will be the unprecedented pointing accuracy achieved by combining images at the two different resolutions. Another will be the 3D imaging which will reveal the topography of Mars in full colour.

"As the 2-metre resolution image is nested in a 10-metre resolution swath, we will know precisely where we are looking. The 2-metre resolution channel will allow us to just pick out the Beagle 2 lander on the surface," says Gerhard Neukum, HRSC Principal Investigator from Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. "

Pick out the Beagle 2 Lander? OK..where is it? Where's the Polar Lander?

How about sharing some 2 meter resolution images of this:





What's up w/ the boom?

MARSIS Sub-Surface Sounding Radar Altimeter

MARSIS will map the sub-surface structure to a depth of a few kilometres. The instrument's 40-metre long antenna will send low frequency radio waves towards the planet, which will be reflected from any surface they encounter.

For most, this will be the surface of Mars, but a significant fraction will travel through the crust to be reflected at sub-surface interfaces between layers of different material, including water or ice.

"We should be able to measure the thickness of sand deposits in dune areas, or determine whether there are layers of sediment sitting on top of other material," says Giovanni Picardi, MARSIS Principal Investigator from Universita di Roma 'La Sapienza', Rome, Italy. MARSIS will also study the ionosphere, as this electrically charged region of the upper atmosphere will reflect some radio waves.

Too much secrecy folks....something's going on at Mars that is not being revealed.

People,

I just checked the ESA's site and they do have tons of Hi res pictures there, so much for a conspiracy theory!

You just have to click on "hi res Image" option.

Moxy, why do you have to make one up?

Do you know why it's surface is red? It's from the iron-sand/dust/what-be-it oxidizing. For a bit more reading you could see this: www.why-is-the-sky-blue.org...

NASA wants us to think it's a more hostile climate than it actually is. Otherwise, why would they use a red filter in front of their cameras?

Tell me.

[edit on 17-11-2004 by Emily_Cragg]

Originally posted by Emily_Cragg
NASA wants us to think it's a more hostile climate than it actually is. Otherwise, why would they use a red filter in front of their cameras?

Tell me.

[edit on 17-11-2004 by Emily_Cragg]

They use three filters to take pictures on Mars. E_T tried explaining this to you already in this thread and even gave an excellent website explaining how digital cameras work.

But just to beat a dead horse... The image on the left is just using two of the filters, the Blue and Green specifically. The Red is added to give a TRUE color of Mars. Have you ever looked at Mars through a telescope? You'll see that it is indeed red. Even looking at it without a telescope you'll see it as a red dot in the sky. It's not caled "The Red Planet" for no reason afterall!

EDIT: Not sure if this has been presented yet or not, but here's a HIGHLY comprehensive ATSNN Exclusive you should read: EXCLUSIVE: NASA Is Not Altering Mars Colors.

[edit on 11/17/2004 by cmdrkeenkid]

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