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Re:New High Resolution Image of Ultima Thule by altcognito on Thursday January 24, 2019 @06:44PM (#18994200)
Did they capture color or just not enough light for that?
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Re:New High Resolution Image of Ultima Thule by Splendor on Thursday January 24, 2019 @07:12PM (#18994357)
They did capture color. Ultima Thule is red.

https://www.space.com/42878-ultima-thule-new-horizons-first-...

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Re:New High Resolution Image of Ultima Thule by nabla9 on Thursday January 24, 2019 @07:10PM (#18994339)
Usually comets look gray even in color pictures.

True-color image of comet 67P/C-G: https://i.imgur.com/wVMkBOV.jpg

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Re:New High Resolution Image of Ultima Thule by jstanley on Thursday January 24, 2019 @07:13PM (#18994363)
There was a low-resolution colour camera and a high-resolution black-and-white camera. But the colour information isn't very interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(486958)_2014_MU69#Gallery
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Re:New High Resolution Image of Ultima Thule by ceejayoz on Thursday January 24, 2019 @06:51PM (#18994234)
Chances are they did (we know they did for the Pluto encounter), but right now they're prioritizing the most potentially scientifically interesting images as it's going to take 20 months to download the entire data set.
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