Phoenix colour image




Just for fun I tried compositing three nearly identical sequential black and white images taken from the Phoenix lander on the hunch that they were taken using red, green and blue filters. The result is a colour image, below (click for a larger image).

False colour composite from Phoenix lander

Image constructed from raw images at the NASA Phoenix images page. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona.

[update: NASA has published a more accurate version of the one I created. Compare and contrast!]

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