zack2014 Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Pictures Renders from the surface of mars, and you have to admit, 1/10 of the awesomeness would be amazing!http://www.damnlol.com/stunning-pictures-of-mars-surface-17609.htmlSorry that it\'s damnlol, but it\'s where I found it.There, now stop debating the reality of the photos! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socket7 Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 They sure are pretty, but I\'m almost positive they are rendered. They appear to be copyrighted to a single person. Photos from the mars rover or other mars probes would have copyrights to space agencies. I wouldn\'t mind scenes like that in KSP, but I don\'t know if it can be done . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UmbralRaptor Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Yeah, they look like renders. I\'m reminded of the images at space4case, actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
togfox Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 The top image has clouds. Does Mars have clouds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoxtane Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 The top image has clouds. Does Mars have clouds?It\'s got dust storms. Works for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UmbralRaptor Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 The top image has clouds. Does Mars have clouds?Yes, though they tend to be rare and thin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frostiken Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Fake pics are fake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herra Tohtori Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Define 'fake', please.If your definition of fake includes all but raw, untouched photographs, you might find yourself in a situation where the vast majority of images in scientific publications are 'fakes'.Did you know that pretty much all pictures of Mars\' surface (as in, the ones taken by Spirit, Opportunity and other probes) have been coloured red because the public perception of Mars is that of a 'Red Planet'?Or that the cameras in said rovers are greyscale cameras, and the colour information is acquired by taking three photos through red, green and blue filters and then combining them in post-processing?Or that the HST (Hubble Space Telescope) images are typically combinations of three images, taken with three filters that correspond to elemental composition of the nebulas, rather than real colour?If these images are rendered, but the 3D model and textures they use are from the real thing, that doesn\'t make the images fake - it makes them visualizations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zack2014 Posted April 7, 2012 Author Share Posted April 7, 2012 I wasn\'t really suggesting they were 'real', but wouldn\'t you guys like to send a probe, detach from your orbital module, go through the atmosphere, and look at that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaydeeDem Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 We also need Munar land bridges and Munar lava tubes.Taken from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. EDIT: And Murtian Caves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socket7 Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Fake pics are fake.Not really a constructive post there. The pics are not fake, because we are looking at them. Obviously they exist, therefore they are real.The question is 'Photograph or Rendered?'Personally, I don\'t care. They\'re pretty.We can however, get down to brass tacks and ask ourselves. 'What have these images been rendered from?' If it\'s an artists imagination, then it\'s pretty. If it\'s rendered from actual geographical data from Mars, then it\'s Pretty Awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt'n Skunky Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 I\'d venture a guess that these are artistic renders that used actual photos as start points or textures.It\'s one thing to manipulate an image from a less than ideal look into something that represents what it would look like to the human eye vs. applying artistic license to create something that does not exist naturally. The latter would be the 'fake'.Arrr!Capt\'n Skunky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kryten Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 ...there\'s an ocean. On Mars. That\'s pretty undeniably fake to me. Can anyone read the copyright notice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaydeeDem Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 ...there\'s an ocean. On Mars. That\'s pretty undeniably fake to me. Can anyone read the copyright notice?Can we stop debating this? It\'s obvious that they are rendered. I think it would be pretty cool if the terrain engine could pull this off though. Still want my Munar/Murtian caves first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluejayek Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 I want asteroids with giant tunnels that have space slugs living in them like star wars. That would be awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sting_auer Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 I want asteroids with giant tunnels that have space slugs living in them like star wars. That would be awesome.You spelled Space Kraken wrong. And what does Star Wars have to do with a Space Kraken? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NovaSilisko Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 You spelled Space Kraken wrong. And what does Star Wars have to do with a Space Kraken? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frostiken Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 Not really a constructive post there. The pics are not fake, because we are looking at them. Obviously they exist, therefore they are real.fake/f?k/Noun: A thing that is not genuine; a forgery or sham.Adjective: Not genuine; counterfeit.Verb: Forge or counterfeit (something).Synonyms: noun. forgery - counterfeit - sham - fraud - imitationadjective. false - counterfeit - spurious - bogus - sham - dummyverb. counterfeit - forge - falsify - fabricate - simulateWhen someone remarks that a woman has fake tits, do you push your glasses up on your nose and launch into a philosophical tirade about what is \'real\' and \'fake\' and whether or not we exist? If so, do you get punched in the face often? The page says 'stunning pictures of Mars\' Surface', which to any common observer would make them think that they are real photos of real mars from a real camera. They are not real photos. They are completely artificial constructs, and only the two showing Olympus Mons sloppily smeared into a spherical shape even remotely approach being a \'real photo\', insofar as there\'s something in it that is a real picture of mars, but the picture it is in is in no way any sort of actual, real photo ever taken by anything that ever has or is in, on, or around Mars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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