Live From Titan–IN COLOR!

Y’know how in all the TV shows that were on in the mid-1960s (Gilligan’s Island, Bewitched, etc.) there was a transition made from filiming in black and white to filming in color? It was customary to add a tag line "In Color!" after the switch was made, to encourage people to go out and buy those new-fangled, blurry color television sets.

Well, the boys at NASA have now added color to their images of Titan, based on spectral analysis of the chemical composition of what the Huygens lander is snapping pictures of.

Bear in mind, that if you were on the surface of Titan, you wouldn’t see these colors. It’s too dark. At that distance, the sun itself is "a cold-hearted orb that rules the night, and robs the colors from our sight. Red is grey and yellow white," but the boys at NASA decide what is  right, and what is an illusion.

Here’s an image colorized for what Titan would look like if you shone very powerful bright lights on it (and in which, NASA explains, the two rock-like objects below the center of the picture are about 6 inches and 1.5 inches across, respecively):

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DAILY PLANET: Today Saturn Girl of the Legion of Super-Heroes released a statement saying, "I am very gratified that the boys at NASA have released photos of my homeworld, Titan, that better convey to the public the visual impression it makes on eyes properly accustomed to the dark. Now can some optometrist here on Earth help me replenish my supply of super-pupil-contracting fluid?"

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Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

5 thoughts on “Live From Titan–IN COLOR!”

  3. I just hope the Huygens people will take a lesson from the Andy Griffith show – new fangled gimmicks like color can’t make up for a weak story or a lack of character development. It’s time to ask; has Huygens jumped the shark?

  4. The photos were not released by NASA but by the European Space Agency, as you can see here. Give credit where credit is due.

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