This movie shows an observation taken with Hinode's X-ray telescope January 17,2007. It is a close up of series of false color images of the solar corona. during the evolution of the jet , the transverse waving left to right motions are visual evidence of an ALFVEN WAVE travelling along the magnetic field which extends out into the solar system. (SOA/NASA/JAXA/NOAJ)

im on the bus with my friend jordan and im testing the false color effect on the phone

Also in false color!!!!

As it swooped past the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus on July 14, 2005, Cassini acquired increasingly high-resolution views of this puzzling ice world. These views have been combined into this exciting movie sequence. The movie provides a stunning, up-close look at what is surely one of the youngest surfaces in the Saturn system. From afar, Enceladus exhibits a bizarre mixture of softened craters and complex, fractured terrains. The movie zooms in on the southern polar terrains and closes in on one of the tectonic stripes that characterize this region which is essentially free of sizeable impact scars. The bright oblong area seen during the zoom is an intermediate resolution image from near the time of closest approach that has been melded into the lower resolution mosaic, and artificially brightened. The movie ends on the highest resolution image acquired by Cassini which reveals a surface dominated by ice blocks between 10 and 100 meters (33 and 330 feet) across, lying in a region that is unusual in its lack of the very fine-grained frost that seems to cover the rest of Enceladus. The lack of frost and the absence of craters are indicators of a youthful surface. The initial image in the movie is a large mosaic of 21 narrow-angle camera images that have been arranged to provide a full-disk view of the anti-Saturn hemisphere on Enceladus. This mosaic is a false-color view that includes images taken at wavelengths from the ultraviolet to the infrared portion of the spectrum, and is similar to another, lower resolution false-color view obtained during the flyby (see Enceladus in False Color). In false-color, many long fractures on Enceladus exhibit a pronounced difference in color (represented here in blue) from the surrounding terrain. A leading explanation for the difference in color is that the walls of the fractures expose outcrops of coarse-grained ice that are free of the powdery surface materials that mantle flat-lying surfaces. The original images in the false-color mosaic range in resolution from 350 to 67 meters (1,148 to 220 feet) per pixel and were taken from distances ranging from 61,300 to 11,100 kilometers (38,090 to 6,897 miles) from Enceladus. The mosaic is also available separately (see Zooming in on Enceladus -- Mosaic). Image scale is about 37 meters (121 feet) per pixel in the wide-angle camera image and about 4 meters (13 feet) per pixel in the narrow-angle image (see Boulder-strewn Surface for these images). Both of these ultra-high resolution views were acquired from an altitude of approximately 208 kilometers (129 miles) above Enceladus as the spacecraft near the time of closest approach during the flyby.

If you work at NASA you should really see the full 10 minutes of this video. Definition of true color: A True-color image of a subject is an image that appears to the human eye just like the original subject would. Definition of false color: A false-color image is an image that depicts a subject in colors that differ from those a faithful full-color photograph would show. false images capture light closer to infrared and shifts it to near visible spectrum. Music used in this video: Track1: Bear McCreary - Passacaglia Track2: Bear McCreary - Black Market Peace

Let's unphotoshop NASA's red pictures to show the true colors of Mars. Amazing! Thanks nash0035 for this simple experiment that everyone can do to bust NASA red-handed. LOL Look here for amateur telescope pictures of Mars: http://mksvangils.googlepages.com/mars And look here for some NASA's Mars pictures: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/images/sol1162B-20080102a.html Definition of true color: A True-color image of a subject is an image that appears to the human eye just like the original subject would. Definition of false color: A false-color image is an image that depicts a subject in colors that differ from those a faithful full-color photograph would show. false images capture light closer to infrared and shifts it to near visible spectrum.

New false-color pictures of the heavily-cratered surface of Mercury taken by NASA's Messenger spacecraft. Messenger aims to map the entire surface of Mercury over the next decade. http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/

Want more? Subscribe to NASA on iTunes! http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=283424434 This animation shows the seasonal advance and retreat of sea ice over the Arctic from 2005-2006. The false color of the sea ice, derived from the AMSR-E instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite, highlights the fissures in the sea ice by showing warmer areas of ice in a deeper blue and colder areas of sea ice in a brighter white. The yearly cycle is repeated three times while the camera circles the Arctic, providing a view of the sea ice from a wide range of viewpoints.

Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveal a turbulent nest of giant newborn stars too shrouded in dust to be seen with visible light. This movie highlights this stellar nursery, called DR21, and illustrates what a human eye might see if it could be re-tuned to see different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. It shows the area surrounding DR21 in shifting wavelengths of light, beginning with the visible and ending with the new Spitzer infrared observations. The view changes in hue from red to blue, then fades from sight, as new infrared features appear in false-colors. The first false-color infrared view is from the near-infrared Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) at wavelengths of 1.3 to 2.2 microns. The second false-color view is from Spitzer's mid-infared InfraRed Array Camera (IRAC) at wavelengths of 3.6 to 8 microns. The picture at the start of the animation encompasses the entire region observed by the Spitzer Space Telescope. The faint emission from hot gas, which appears red initially in the visible view, shifts toward blue and out of sight as the near-infrared features start to emerge. A multitude of new stars shifts into view in the near-infrared view. Then, several faint, dark reddish smudges appear throughout this field, hinting at the presence of more deeply buried nebula. Finally as the movie shifts to longer Spitzer wavelengths, these denser embedded dust clouds burst fully into view, revealing the more extensive network of newborn stars that was utterly absent in visible light. The shift from visible to infrared light is then repeated for a zoomed-in view of the central DR21 complex. With this magnification, the stellar nursery of massive stars is much clearer. In the final Spitzer view, red filaments trace the presence of complex hydrocarbon molecules. The green jet of gas at the bottom of the region reveals an outflow of material from a massive star over 100,000 times as bright as our own Sun.

A series of false color animations that reveals some of the complex structure of the mysterious comet that is enclosed within a cloud of dust.

Surreal images produced using infrared filters and in-camera effect. Beautiful music by tps607 (Tom Simanek) http://www.youtube.com/tps607 In infrared photography, the film or image sensor used is sensitive to infrared light. The part of the spectrum used is referred to as near-infrared to distinguish it from far-infrared, which is the domain of thermal imaging. Wavelengths used for photography range from about 700 nm to about 900 nm. Usually an "infrared filter" is used; this lets infrared (IR) light pass through to the camera, but blocks all or most of the visible light spectrum (the filter thus looks black or deep red). When these filters are used together with infrared-sensitive film or sensors, very interesting "in-camera effects" can be obtained; false-color or black-and-white images with a dreamlike or sometimes lurid appearance known as the "Wood Effect." Outstanding photographers: Bram Bos Roie Galitz Robert Contreras Montana Becky at flickr Andrea Lohman Jim Cook Don Gale Lam Wong

A million miles from planet Earth, last weekend the STEREO B spacecraft found itself in the shadow of the Moon. So, looking toward the Sun, extreme ultraviolet cameras onboard STEREO B were able to record a stunning movie of a lunar transit (aka solar eclipse), as the Moon tracked across the solar disk. Each frame of the movie is a false-color composite of images made through four different filters that highlight temperature regimes and structures in the upper solar atmosphere. In this frame, large bright active regions, seen as dark sunspots in visible light, flank the Moon's silhouetted disk. The Moon appears small, less than 1/4th the size seen from Earth, because the spacecraft-Moon separation is over four times the Earth-Moon distance. Tonight, the Moon will find itself in planet Earth's shadow in a total lunar eclipse.

'This Cassini false-color mosaic shows all synthetic-aperture radar images to date of Titan's north polar region. Approximately 60 percent of Titan's north polar region, above 60 degrees north latitude, is now mapped with radar. About 14 percent of the mapped region is covered by what is interpreted as liquid hydrocarbon lakes. Features appearing darkest to the radar, which are thought to be liquid, are shown in blue and black, and the radar-bright areas likely to be solid surface are tinted brown. The terrain in the top center of this mosaic is imaged at lower resolution than the remainder of the image. Most of the many lakes and seas seen so far are contained in this image, including the largest known body of liquid on Titan. These seas are most likely filled with liquid ethane, methane and dissolved nitrogen.' Video date- ? Source- http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/videos/video-details.cfm?videoID=161

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Europe false-color cloud imaging satelite time-lapse for period 30.8.2005. - 24.6.2007. pictures were taken in 30 minute periods. there are some frames missing.

A Moment Frozen in Time: (Medium image makes a great Background/Wallpaper) Medium Image: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20050610a/sunset_a489_gamma_2sub_800_br2.jpg Large : http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20050610a/sunset_a489_gamma_2sub_800.jpg On May 19th, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the Sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars. This Panoramic Camera (Pancam) mosaic was taken around 6:07 in the evening of the rover's 489th martian day, or sol. Spirit was commanded to stay awake briefly after sending that sol's data to the Mars Odyssey orbiter just before sunset. This small panorama of the western sky was obtained using Pancam's 750-nanometer, 530-nanometer and 430-nanometer color filters. This filter combination allows false color images to be generated that are similar to what a human would see, but with the colors slightly exaggerated. In this image, the bluish glow in the sky above the Sun would be visible to us if we were there, but an artifact of the Pancam's infrared imaging capabilities is that with this filter combination the redness of the sky farther from the sunset is exaggerated compared to the daytime colors of the martian sky. Because Mars is farther from the Sun than the Earth is, the Sun appears only about two-thirds the size that it appears in a sunset seen from the Earth. The terrain in the foreground is the rock outcrop "Jibsheet", a feature that Spirit has been investigating for several weeks (rover tracks are dimly visible leading up to Jibsheet). The floor of Gusev crater is visible in the distance, and the Sun is setting behind the wall of Gusev some 80 km (50 miles) in the distance. This mosaic is yet another example from MER of a beautiful, sublime martian scene that also captures some important scientific information. Specifically, sunset and twilight images are occasionally acquired by the science team to determine how high into the atmosphere the martian dust extends, and to look for dust or ice clouds. Other images have shown that the twilight glow remains visible, but increasingly fainter, for up to two hours before sunrise or after sunset. The long martian twilight (compared to Earth's) is caused by sunlight scattered around to the night side of the planet by abundant high altitude dust. Similar long twilights or extra-colorful sunrises and sunsets sometimes occur on Earth when tiny dust grains that are erupted from powerful volcanoes scatter light high in the atmosphere. For more info: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/overview/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gusev_crater Watching Martian Clouds Go By: http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/spotlight/20080324_Opportunity.html Other cool pics: http://marsdata1.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/photoContest/index.cfm The Mars Polar Lander cost the average American the price of half a cheeseburger. A human lander would cost the average American more -- perhaps even ten cheeseburgers! So be it. That is no great sacrifice. JONAH GOLDBERG, National Review Online, May 3, 2000

Mars Rovers: Opportunity NASA - 'Lyell' Panorama inside Victoria Crater (False Color) "During four months prior to the fourth anniversary of its landing on Mars, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity examined rocks inside an alcove called "Duck Bay" in the western portion of Victoria Crater. " http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/images/Sol1332B_Lyell_ADJ_L257F.html

This animation begins with a stunning false-color picture of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. It is made up of images taken by three of NASA's Great Observatories, using three different wavebands of light. Infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope are colored red; visible data from the Hubble Space Telescope are yellow; and X-ray data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory are green and blue. Located 10,000 light-years away in the northern constellation Cassiopeia, Cassiopeia A is the remnant of a once massive star that died in a violent supernova explosion 325 years ago. It consists of a dead star, called a neutron star, and a surrounding shell of material that was blasted off as the star died. The neutron star can be seen in the Chandra data as a sharp turquoise dot in the center of the shimmering shell. The movie then pans out to show a Spitzer view of Cassiopeia A (yellow ball) and surrounding clouds of dust (reddish orange). Here, the animation flips back and forth between two Spitzer images taken one year apart. A blast of light from Cassiopeia A is seen waltzing through the dusty skies. Called an "infrared echo," this dance began when the remnant's dead star erupted, or "turned in its grave," about 50 years ago. Infrared echoes are created when a star explodes or erupts, flashing light into surrounding clumps of dust. As the light zips through the dust clumps, it heats them up, causing them to glow successively in infrared, like a chain of Christmas bulbs lighting up one by one. The result is an optical illusion, in which the dust appears to be flying outward at the speed of light. Echoes are distinct from supernova shockwaves, which are made up material that is swept up and hurled outward by exploding stars. This infrared echo is the largest ever seen, stretching more than 50 light-years away from Cassiopeia A. If viewed from Earth, the entire movie frame would take up the same amount of space as two full moons. Hints of an older infrared echo from Cassiopeia A's supernova explosion hundreds of years ago can also be seen. The earlier Spitzer image was taken on November 30, 2003, and the later, on December 2, 2004.

Here is a video that explains why NASA JPL only shows false color images of Mars. What else could they by lying about?

This is a new way to present infrared images where you create by a dedicated and patented software, the X-Ray format applied to Thermal Images. The discriminations is much better than the conventional false color ones.

False-color images of the Huygens Probe landing, loosely synched to the descent radar sound recording. The shutter sound I added for effect. This is not accurate, just cool.

This is a visualization showing the relative size of Mars compared to that of Earth. This version uses false color textures (there are corresponding true color versions as well). The colors correspond to the heights above/below 'sea level.' This version also includes pole axes and an orbit plane. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Panning around an enhanced false color image, produced by NASA/JPL/CalTech-Cornell. This is of Cape St. Mary's in Meridiani as seen from the Opportunity rover on Mars. Image Credit: NASA/JPL http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA09085.jpg

Here's a false-color, satellite image compilation video of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. I don't know who put it together, but it's absolutely riveting.

This animation shows the record two-hour observation of Jupiter, taken using a superior technique to remove atmospheric blur, which has produced the sharpest whole-planet picture ever taken from the ground. The images were recorded in the infrared with the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator (MAD) prototype instrument mounted on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT). They reveal changes in Jupiter's smog-like haze, probably in response to a planet-wide upheaval more than a year ago. Only one filter, centred around 2 microns, is used in this movie. A false color table has been used to highlight enhanced haze in this monochromatic image sequence. The sky quality was rapidly varying ("seeing") during the observations, leading to clearly visible fluctuations of the correction performance with time. Credit: ESO/F. Marchis, M. Wong, E. Marchetti, P. Amico, S. Tordo