Pluto
Pluto
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- sarahfailin-1
I'll weigh in with some science and k-nowledge. For all you complainers about black and white photography-- there is no color in the visible spectrum in deep space!! The sun appears as just a particularly bright star in the great distance. We're talking about extremely, extremely low light.
The reason why the pictures appear to have any color at all is because the satellite takes three different pictures at different wavelengths, and then the 3 images are combined.
If you were looking at pluto with your naked eyes from the same distance it would appear gray.
- <nerdpinkfloyd
- <nasal voicepinkfloyd
- There certainly IS color in the visible spectrum in deep space, and your naked eye would have no problem perceiving it. The amount of light WOULD be an issue.monospaced
- And the reason ANY pictures have color is because of the 3 combined wavelengths, RGB. Same with the retina in your eyes.monospaced
- Of course there is color in space. But no, not like that painted in our favorite sci-fi shows.ETM
- it's clear i meant that there is not enough light for the human eye to perceive color in deep space. gimme a break heresarahfailin
- that wasn't 100% clear, based on your second sentence :)monospaced
- erm, no, that's not how it works, sarah.detritus
- Well, I suppose - if you did view pluto with your bare eyes from the distance of NH, you'd see about a quarter second of colour, then your eyeballs would freezedetritus
- Yea but potatoset