BRFelix wrote:
Where nothing is ever what it appears to be and there is always someone who has written a paper that disputes what your lying eyes show you and there are always scholars eager to yield to this authority.
Alex writes:
Frankly, and forgive me, but this is one of the most ignorant statements I've seen on this board, and that says a lot.
First of all, the images you are seeing are processed from camera systems that do not return "true color," whatever that the latter term means. Secondly, spectral response is a more diagnostic parameter to an object's color signature. As the TES team noted, White Rock is spectrally flat and not anomously bright.
As to your insinuation that scholars (presumably that includes me) simply bow to authority, that is a total crock. Scholars do, however, rate evidence in a hierachial fashion. In my mind, a peer-reviewed publication on the color of White Rock is more reliable than some musings posted on a kooky website.
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