What a funny yolk

In before Mork from Ork references.

The Cassie app is farken awesome.

Scutter: I realize that you can get more detail from a black-and-white photo, but would it kill them to take a color shot once in awhile?

In order to take a "color photo" they have to take multiple shots over different wavelengths, then merge the images together, much the same as your color printer has 3 toner cartridges along with the black toner in order to produce a color image. Hence, more images, more bandwidth to send back, using up resources and other data that might be of more interest to scientists back here on Earth.

Divvying up time on the DSN (Deep Space Network) for many different spacecraft is already spread thin, so taking glamour shots is low on the priority chain.

dittybopper: The-Brain:

What the flash may have looked like:

dittybopper: There are ways to color correct: When they took a look at the first Viking pictures, the Martian sky was a pretty pale blue. The technicians had 'corrected' the color values in the image, because the sky is blue, right? Then they corrected the images against the color target on board the lander, and it turned out the sky was salmon colored, not blue.

Along those lines, I think all the Voyager images had heightened red tones because the CCDs were including some infra-red in the red channel.