A splotchy but colorful image, with browns, sandy reds, and pale tan color.

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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 00:44:14 UTC Robert McNees

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   Still, it took a while to process the official image.

   Engineers working on the project were impatient, so they printed out strips of numbers encoding image data and colored them by hand with pastels!

   https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/693/first-tv-image-of-mars-hand-colored/