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Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by JimOberg
Well, JimO, you're gonna love this!!:....
NASA explainer extraordinaire Brian Welsh says
'Bad editing error...'
Originally posted by ArMaP
Originally posted by Mintwithahole.
Now I find they weren't so perhaps ArMap, Phage and Oberg are right that NASA have never retouched a picture of the moon!?
As I said in my first post on this thread, I have seen at least two photos on NASA sites that were altered.
One of those I do not remember what it was, but the other case was this one, and it shows that we cannot really trust NASA photos that are not on the sites meant for the scientific community. I have never seen anything suspicious in those sites.
No, but two images, in which one had the colour removed from part of it shows, at least, intent to show things different from what they really are.
Originally posted by JimOberg
So two different images with possible different color levels is the sign of deliberate intent to deceive?
Originally posted by ArMaP
Can you tell me what reason do you see for turning part of that photo (the Moon) into a greyscale image while keeping the Earth in colour?
"This image is offered by the USGS as one of the images taken by Clementine using the high res natural light camera... see anything wrong?
That earth is a 3D CGI model pasted onto the gray moonscape to keep people believing the myth that the moon is not a full color celestial body."
-Zorgon
Originally posted by weedwhacker
The USGS picture is clearly labeled. It is NOT intended to deceive.
Originally posted by ArMaP
No, but two images, in which one had the colour removed from part of it shows, at least, intent to show things different from what they really are.
Originally posted by JimOberg
So two different images with possible different color levels is the sign of deliberate intent to deceive?
Can you tell me what reason do you see for turning part of that photo (the Moon) into a greyscale image while keeping the Earth in colour?
The only reason I see is to make the Earth more photogenic and the Moon more "out of this world", one of those things that people in marketing like to do.
Nowhere on the image is it stated that the Earth is a 3D CGI model pasted above the gray moonscape.
In that case, yes.
Originally posted by Mintwithahole.
So the moon has been reduced to simple shades of grey so that we cannot see the true colours that are present on the moon?
Why did Jim Lovell, when he was orbiting the moon aboard Apollo 8 describe the moon as grey, looking like plaster of paris.
Mint, because we are familiar with the Earth, and we know about the variations...the Moon is far more homogenous in color. It has no water oceans, no lakes, no forests...the minerals that make up the various rocks will have definite color when seen closer up...MOST of those specimens are likely unobserved until disturbed in some way.
Doesn't matter if an object with colour is 1 metre away, 1 mile away or a thousand miles away, you will still perceive the colour! Also, the astronauts where looking down on the moon through binoculars. They could make out the fine detail on the surface while in orbit. To coin a phrase, "They were seeing it in living colour! They just, it would seem, didn't tell us on earth about those colours.
Why would they lie about that?
Originally posted by weedwhacker
By 'temperture' of the film, I should have said of the light....just as you get different colors when photographing here on Earth under different light sources, or 'temperatures'. A short course in photography will explain it better.
Originally posted by AlienCarnage
Another thought to consider is that the moon surface is highly reflective, how do you know how close you would have to be from discerning color of such a surface?