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- Boyblundr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+53Ew... That whole "color enhanced" thing just ruins the whole image. It would be better if it actually looked REAL.
I like the original better: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpegMod/PIA08329_modest.jpg - combatchuck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+38http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA08329.jpg
Higher res version of the original. - ldhotsoup, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26They didn't just change it around to 'radify' the picture. They did it so you could see some of the particular details mentioned about the picture, such as the E ring and earth, clearly. Plus, the details such as the radiance coming off the rings was captured in the initial photograph, and are lost a little in the original.
NASA doesn't just 'photoshop up' its pictures to make them more appealing, even though that's often the result, they do it so they can analyze the details more clearly, or perhaps see the picture in the colors it's meant to be seen in, not just as the lens captures it. That's why most photographic craft have color wheels and such attached to them now, so we can get more accurate pictures by applying the proper enhancement work to them, such as seeing Mars' red sands in their true colors. - ABadInAlbany, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26hotness! straight to desktop background.
- neave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Wallpapers also found here: http://centripetalnotion.com/2006/10/11/21:16:49/
Originals here: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08329 - Vicille, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12What the hell are you talking about? They enhanced the colors. It says so in the article.
- equitium, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13Simply amazing what the human race can do.. if it wanted. Imagine if we all got along. We would have colonized space by now.. Close to ensuring our permanence. But arguing and killing is too fun I guess. We may all be gone in 50 years.
- thelimopit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I remember hearing that had the Roman Empire not fallen they would have created the first combustion engine within 500 years. Just think where we'd be today if that were true.
- AndrewJC, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8What I always wondered was that if we saw those nebulae with our naked eyes, would they appear to be more like the grayscale photos or like the colorized versions? Like, does gas spectrography just take the camera's view and turn it into a more natural view, or does it actually COLORIZE by adding in data that isn't actually there?
- curunculus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Yeah .. just perfect for widescreen monitors! :thumbup:
- CDRaff, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8They actually colorize for a lot of reasons. one is to help bring out detail that is lost in the original. in the originals the blacks are way too bottomed out, and the whites are way blown-out. Colorizing can also help Identify the elements the stuff is made of, they use an advanced algorithms for colorizing. I think it is kinda cool.
- onikage, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Hmm. What's up with your userimage.png? Seems broken...
http://digg.com/userimages/b/o/b/bobbyonions/small4204.png - ABadInAlbany, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8most photos of outer space would be pretty darn boring if they weren't artificially tinted. visually, most deep space stuff is black and white/greyscale. it's not until they tint for gas spectrographical info that you get the awesome space views we all know and love.
- sokz, on 10/12/2007, -8/+13Yeah, my biggest grief is when they doctor these images into oblivion..
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Ice fountains? That sounds pretty cool.
- devin_mm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I like the original better as well it somehow looks more..... evil.
- neave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Close-up of the Earth in this image: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060927.html
- neave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Voila http://www.acme.com/jef/apod/rss.xml
- neave, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3If it's not from NASA, who else took this photo?
- CoreBurn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Yeah but most people are too busy hating each other because they look different or believe in different unprovable religions... fighting over fuel/energy that pollutes our atmosphere... fighting over imaginary borders/lines in the sand... obsessing over money, politics, movies, music, sex...
- Toy0, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Nice pic, shame about the article title.
- RandomEngy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah. From the Pale Blue Dot link:
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
Carl Sagan rocks hard. - AlphaDuo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Don't you think it'll be a good idea if NASA syndicates the pic of the day page to RSS? Never knew there was such a great collection like this... awesome stuff
- Smigge87, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2So... beautiful... They should have sent a poet....
- theanonbrit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Your comment... no words... no words to describe it.
- Clearz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I want that in a poster.
- Lord_oftheTrons, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"What I always wondered was that if we saw those nebulae with our naked eyes, would they appear to be more like the gray scale photos or like the colorized versions? Like, does gas spectrography just take the camera's view and turn it into a more natural view, or does it actually COLORIZE by adding in data that isn't actually there?"
When referring to nebulae in particular, those shots are typically in infrared so you wouldn't be able to see those wavelengths of light. Most of the activity that looks so cool on most pictures is in the infrared or x-ray spectrum which you would not be able to see with your naked eye anyway. Its not a the fact that it would show up grey or black, you just straight would not see anything. For example:
A few days ago on APOD was a picture of Saturn in infrared:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061012.html
The glow you see there and the glow you see in many nebulae pictures is usually the glow of radiation, either x-ray, gamma, or infrared.
Typically they give different colors to different temperatures of radiation which then lead to the colorful pictures you see submitted to digg with titles with "AMAZING" in it. These colors typically are cooridinated with the elements that are present, like Hydrogen and Helium which are abundant in nebulae. - ahawks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There's a Google IG widget for APOD. I saw this photo yesterday on it.
Still, nice digg. - neave, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I think this image is pretty amazing. No human being has ever been able to see Saturn from this point of view ever. I think that ranks it quite highly.
- jruckman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Hubble desktop archive:
http://digg.com/space/Complete_Hubble_Telescope_desktops_wide_fullscreen - Esstee, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Simply unreal! - amazing photo's thanks for sharing.
- Burly, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Link us to some pictures of Saturn you would consider better then maybe you wouldn't have been digg' down.
- equitium, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1yes and also the roman empire had flushing toilets and running water 1000 years before it was ever seen again... just imagine
- ChileanGoD, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"I beliiiiiive I can flyyy.... I believe I can touch the skkkkyyyyyy"
- mcgrawsfaith, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1close up image of my ass here:( )( )
- nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1hotsoup is right but I still think it's cooler to see what the original looks like, and it makes a better background because it's not as bright.
in any case they're both amazing photos. - Lindahz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wow
- PabloIV, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Fighting over /. and Digg, fighting over Wii and PS3, fighting over G4 and TechTV, fighting over Mac and PC, fighting over Firefox and IE, fighting over Microsoft and pretty much everything else. Obesessing over Operating Systems, and browsers, and Social networking sites, search engines, consoles...
- CubicZirconia, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Regarding the image processing, you should also consider that the original image is more than likely not what you would see with your own eyes. The dynamic range of your eyes greatly exceed that of the camera, and the processed image could perhaps be closer to what you would see if you were at the observation point in person.
- elrancho, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Whoa, total plate o' shrimp moment. Just joined this site on recommendation of a co-worker and then she showed me this link. It just happens to be my home page on the work computer. Freaky! I am going to like this place!
- PabloIV, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I have a great picture of Saturn and Earth at the Liebowitz Bar Mitzvah
- mcgrawsfaith, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0ya its pretty crazy.. think that you could of been born on a station if they made one by now
- mcgrawsfaith, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0nice, im gonna make it my wallpaper ,thx
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3"exagerrated color"
I don't mind seen it like that, but I also want to see it as it would look with my own eyes.
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpegMod/PIA08329_modest.jpg - drgruney, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5Computer. Enhance.
- jlovesnwbrd23, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Yes i agree it doesn't look real at all i think it was just some computer generated or artist generated image!
- tkotam, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0cool. i'll photoshop superman onto it and submit it to digg again. :-)
The title of my digg would be "Most amazing image of Saturn.... & Superman" - typhinx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0it doesn't even look real!
- BobbyOnions, on 10/12/2007, -12/+8Before anybody asks, I don't want to see a picture of Uranus.
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