It's a very hard thing to do to get true color. It wouldn't be cheating, Chuck, if you had a huge eyeball. If my CCD tips in the. Then it would be. And all those photons, that'd be good. All right, so Carolyn, when I look at the think of the inventory,. profound photos, of course, Earthrise from Apollo eight comes to mind. Can you reflect on that? Well, that was The globe of people first saw the Earth from afar.
How much has space imaging furthered our understanding of the Universe? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice learn the story of cameras on space probes like Voyager and Cassini and the exciting science of Saturn with planetary scientist Carolyn Porco.
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