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NASA’s Tricky, Trippy Games With the Color Spectrum

By Rebecca Horne | May 20, 2010 4:17 pm

Kamchatka Peninsula. The eastern side of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula juts into the Pacific Ocean west of Alaska.

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Brian Too

Wait, they could have mapped Red to Red, and Green to Green, yet chose bump everything down?

Why not go with

RGB = RGN?

Or are they trying to keep “warm” colours on the long end of the spectrum, and “cold” on the shorter wavelengths?
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