
May 27th, 2003, 12:20 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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Re: Extremely Cool Astronomy News
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Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
"Wait a minute, they say that the picture is colored!!!
What the heck that means? that it isn't real?"
Hint: most scientific results you find for public view have been massaged in one way or another. The difference is whether they tell you or not.
This is a harmless case of that. Its actually two black and white pictures layered together; in the actual earth image, Jupiter would be too faint to see (not enough exposure time)
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