Back to the future...

[jay]

I'm dubious of the latest plan... abandoning the shuttle in a couple of years, reverting to a capsule architecture to go back to the Moon by 2013. But at least they have the rationale for the Moon (correctly, IMO) being to prepare to go to Mars by 2020. Otherwise, the Moon itself is close enough that we can easily explore it with telerobotics at much lower cost. Mars, on the other hand, needs humans there because of the transmission lags to Earth.

Now, for the details... what I've heard of the plan thus far sounds like it was written by the JSC old-guard.

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[brian1789.livejournal.com]

The messed-up color calibration? The German fellow appears to be correct WRT those images. I don't know if this is just sloppiness while getting public images released, or if some PR person advised them to skew the calibration to the red for publicly-released photos, probably figuring that some sector of the mainstream public audience wouldn't believe that it came from Mars otherwise.

Anyone using those images for research is going to take the targets and do their own calibrations, anyway.