Remember “Mars in Crayon” yesterday? Curator Dan Goods has put more images from JPL online, including this comparison of the pastels sketch and the actual decoded TV image above.
Though he used a brown/red color scheme, the thought that Mars was red did not enter his mind. He really was looking for the colors that best represented a grey scale, since that was what they were going to get anway. It is uncanny how close his color scheme is to the actual colors of Mars. It’s as if they came right out of current images of the planet. I’ve seen some of the other color schemes he tried and it could have been green or purple!
These remind me of the style boards from ‘The Road’ that were posted recently.