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Adam Rogers: Full Spectrum: The Science of Color and Modern Human Perception

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What's the Difference Between the Local Sun and Exoplanets?

One of our other questions is, you know, when humans colonize other planets orbiting other stars, how all the local suns unique light spectrum affect their perceptions. They take it into account on the cameras on the rovers that are on Mars right now. Perseverance has cameras on Mars that are designed to take into account both what the image that they see would look like to a human standing there. And this is sort of metaphor because the researchers don't think about it this way, but they'll say this is what it would look liketo a Martian. Interesting.

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