Where are the color images from Titan?

[hendrixfan]

I know that it's not practical to send colour images across the solar system, but have any of you heard if ESA is going to colourize any of the photos taken on Titan? Will the quality of these "raw images" improve any more than they have?

 

[yurkin]

Sorry Hendrix I need to make a correction after reading ESA’s DISR website<br /><br />Technically none of the pictures are in black and white. They are all grayscales of particular wavelengths. The side looking imager is from wavelength 660-1000. This wavelength is one that was previously determined to pass through the atmosphere. Anyway red light starts at 650 and at 700 it passes into the infrared. So these images are actually a lot clearer then anything the human eye would ever be able see on the surface of Titan. That is unless you turned on you palm light or infrared goggles. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <br /><br />I suspect from what I’ve read that what you would see with the naked eye is a very dark orange-reddish view.

 

[yurkin]

Oh and here's the website<br />http://soho.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=31193&fbodylongid=734

 

[CalliArcale]

<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>I know that it's not practical to send colour images across the solar system, but have any of you heard if ESA is going to colourize any of the photos taken on Titan?<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br /><br />ESA has already colorized one of them:<br /><br />PIA07232: First Color View of Titan's Surface<br /><br />I believe they basically used the spectrometry data to estimate approximately what color it should be. I do not know how precise this method is, but it's still fun. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em>  -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>