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Aluminumbird1010 wrote: Somewhat related I guess is the discovery of a rodent on Mars, seen in one of the pictures that were sent back to Earth and published by NASA. This rodent turned out to be very common on Devon Island, where NASA did their Mars rovers tests....

http://humansarefree.com/2015/12/where-on-earth-are-nasas-rovers-sending.html This^ is why I ernjoy randomly bumping ionto 'big thinkers' in sandboxes that have nothing to do with this subject matter. I am shown things that are new to me. Never new about the mars rats. Thanks for poin ting this out. What really strikes my chord is this from your link

'' "Getting the colors right is not an exact science," says Bell. "Giving an approximate view of what we'd see if we were there involves an artistic, visionary element as well – after all, no one's ever been there before." However, great pains are taken to be as accurate as possible, short of going there ourselves. To give people a sense of being on Mars, scientists combine views through telescopes, data from past Mars missions, and new information from the current mission to '''create a color-balanced, uniform scene. Color-corrected mosaics simulate''' the view a person would see if all the images in the mosaic were taken on the same day, at the same moment. In addition, the rovers can take three pictures in a row of the same surface area on Mars using three different primary color filters – red, green, and blue – to make one color image. "It works a little like an inkjet color printer, which combines primary colors to create various shades on paper," explains Eric De Jong, Lead for the Solar System Visualization Team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "Then, we can tweak the color just like you can adjust the color balance on a TV screen at home." — NASA, ''