NASA finds water and organics in asteroid sample–possible clues to life's origin

Re:NASA finds water and organics in asteroid sample–possible... by wtf_is_this on Thursday October 12, 2023 @05:09PM (#37863185)

Anyone know why the (only?) picture is in black and white? It seems taking one with color wouldn't be any more difficult...

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Re:NASA finds water and organics in asteroid sample–possible... by pipe2devnull on Thursday October 12, 2023 @05:39PM (#37863509)

I think it is a color photo, just it’s just everything I’m pretty much is grey I think. If you look closely in some parts there’s a tiny bit of color.

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Re:NASA finds water and organics in asteroid sample–possible... by dtgriscom on Thursday October 12, 2023 @08:39PM (#37865037)

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Re:NASA finds water and organics in asteroid sample–possible... by jboy55 on Thursday October 12, 2023 @05:12PM (#37863213)

Most likely the picture was taken with a monochrome sensor with a filter applied tuned to a specific wavelength. That's more valuable than a color filter, which is made up of a mosaic of single pixel individual red, green and blue filters, interpolated to produce a RGB image.

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