NASA Mars probe - why are they sending b/w pics?!

[Deja Q]

Why not color, this is 2003 and red is prettier than gray!

[aquart]

1. I hear we get color later this week.

When the funny little thing is up and running.

[Deja Q]

2. Kewl!!

I love color!

[supernova]

3. The panoramic view camera

isn't deployed yet. We're just getting litttle dinky webcam-equivalent pics at this point. But they're still MARS pics!! Yay!!

[wunnerfulrobin]

4. machine isnt fully deployed

when the machine is fully up and running in a few days, then we start to get color pics. I believe they will also be coloring these early pics as well.

[mhr]

5. Color Requires A Lot Of Radio Bandwidth

The black and white photos are from the low gain (low bandwidth) antenna.

As soon as the high gain (high bandwidth) antenna is deployed, color should be possible.

[vptpt]

6. It's 2004

And I'm the first smartass to point that out in this thread!

[Cush]

7. lol

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Is there a place that we can go to (URL, that is) and get pics

straight up?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

9. Bandwidth, I would guess

[Cat Atomic]

10. Actually, it landed in a B&W area of Mars.

What can I say. It's science, kids.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

11. Must be like 1940 there, or something, huh?

[jpgray]

12. No, then it would be cheap grainy color. (nt)