I think this is just as true color as those green/blue parts of the Sahara in Google Earth.
"The RGB products are different than the IRB products in that the IR channel has been replaced by a “synthetic blue” layer that creates an image that is somewhat closer to natural color."
Another active avalanche on Mars caught by HiRISE. See this post for the first Mars avalanche.
Cool picture.
ReplyDeleteThough this is a false-color image.
Not very false. It is HiRISE RGB.
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I think this is just as true color as those green/blue parts of the Sahara in Google Earth.
ReplyDelete"The RGB products are different than the IRB products in that the IR channel has been replaced by a “synthetic blue” layer that creates an image that is somewhat closer to natural color."