It’s Friday. We know you really don’t want to work. How about some nerdy space pr0n?
NASA just released a bunch of high-res images taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment between April and early August. There are 1,500 total images and some of them are stunning. It’s almost like we’re not looking at Mars, but rather desolate areas of Earth. Mars has never looked so alive.
Stunning stuff. The color lookup table on these two shots strikes me as different from the CLUTs from past NASA/Mars missions. I wish someone could explain this to me. Used to be … it was orangy. What’s up with the blue? Is someone trying to say something here by releasing this shot, or is this just mischief at the color-wheel … to confuse non-scientists like me?