Then you must prefer your pictures of Mars to be all in shades of gray (that is, no red at all), pictures of Saturn and Jupiter to be downright dull, pictures of asteroids to show dark barely discernable lumps, etc. Because that's what you'd see with your own eyes if you were actually there. They change the colors so that the pictures will appeal to a wider audience. I imagine if you were to pursue it hard enough you could find original source material, but almost nobody except you and the astronomers would want to see them.
Celestial Claim for giant ‘Planet Nine’ at Solar System’s edge takes a hit
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Truth is better than fiction in reality.
You must be a lot of fun at parties!
I swear, these days it seems like a lot of reality is fiction! The world can be a very surreal place these days!
Lone_Hawk
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I'm not really following this thread, but the title keeps popping up. As is normal, when I lay me down to sleep, my mind goes "left turn Clyde!" And thus it did last night...
I would imagine that we have the moon's orbit and data about it dialed in to the MM. Computers can easily calculate the orbit of the moon down to a knat's a$$. Observed variations from the calculated seen by observation, taking into consideration all of the known influences of known celestial bodies etc., wouldn't those variation provide an indication of an "unknown" celestial body? If not, it may be that we don't have a long enough train of data for it to show. Who knows.... Either way, an interesting topic...
I would imagine that we have the moon's orbit and data about it dialed in to the MM. Computers can easily calculate the orbit of the moon down to a knat's a$$. Observed variations from the calculated seen by observation, taking into consideration all of the known influences of known celestial bodies etc., wouldn't those variation provide an indication of an "unknown" celestial body? If not, it may be that we don't have a long enough train of data for it to show. Who knows.... Either way, an interesting topic...
