HiRISE

Just recently color has being incorporated into images of Mars. The HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been taking black-and-white images of Mars since November 2006 and employs multiple filter detectors that record different colors. The colors that Mars will be imaged in are not the colors that the human eye would register. Instead, the images are processed to maximize color differences, helping to analyze the landscape. Color data is the new tool used to interpret geological processes on Mars.