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Originally Posted by Grand_Lunar
Okay, here's some reasoning.
First and foremost, this is a false color image.
It seems you do not understand what that means.
It means that different filters for different wavelengths are used in taking an image. Then, when processed, colors are assigned to these channels. We get an image that is not how it really looks, but rather a representation of different chemicals that are present. Look at false color images of Saturn. You'll see that they show the planet as mostly white, with multicolored stripes. Same for Jupiter false color iamges.
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I'm not sure if Dfrank ever told us the source of this image. It occurs to me that this may not even be a proper false color image (where colors are used to convey useful information) but might just simply be a colorized image (where it was colored blue on a whim).
Dfrank, what was the source of this image, and the technical parameters for the color selection?