Experts are trying to figure out for what purpose space agencies paint the photographs they receive in fake colors and show them to us only after that.
Photo experts have more than once noticed that photographs provided by space agencies, such as NASA and ESA, firstly, are not provided to the general public immediately after they are received, and secondly, they are often in fake colors. They tried to find out why this is happening.
“It is already good that even though the photographs themselves are not fake, only their colors are fake. Is this a crime against us? Let's figure it out,”says a photo expert from Arizona, who wished to keep his name anonymous.
In 2004, more than once the question was raised that NASA is constantly coloring photos received by their spacecraft in fake colors. Experts even accused representatives of the US space agency that they process their photos in Photoshop before showing them to the public, and they do this, ostensibly in order to make their research more attractive to the public. for example, almost all the photos of the Red Planet presented to us have completely false fake colors. All this is done with the aim of promoting the exploration of Mars and presenting it in a more attractive and even fabulous or mythical form.
Representatives of NASA justify that they are doing this solely so that photographs of space objects, as well as Martian or other surfaces, are clearer and brighter so that they can be better explained.
“Using infrared filters is essential to clearly see sometimes dim objects. And the partial use of fake colors does not mean that the whole photo is fake,”NASA officials say.