EditorialImages provided by NOAA show, from left: a false-color satellite image of a giant mass of glowing seawater at night, near the island of Java in Indonesia in August 2019; and the same image, but without colorization. (Steven D. Miller/NOAA via The New York Times)
EditorialImages provided by NOAA show, from left: a false-color satellite image of a giant mass of glowing seawater at night, near the island of Java in Indonesia in August 2019; and the same image, but without colorization. (Steven D. Miller/NOAA via The New York Times)
EditorialA false-color image highlighted rougher brush strokes in the lower layers of paint, especially on the back wall and around the woman’s face. (National Gallery of Art via The New York Times)
EditorialA photo provided by Danielle Moser and Bill Cooke/Meteoroid Environments Office/MSFC/NASA, a false-color composite image of Quarantid meteors streaking through the skies over NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., in 2012. (Danielle Moser and Bill Cooke/Meteoroid Environments Office/MSFC/NASA via The New York Times)
EditorialA false-color image provided by NASA shows the spot where a rocket-powered descent stage of NASA’s Curiosity mission, also known as the sky crane, fell to the surface after successfully delivering the rover to Mars’s surface, in 2012. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona via The New York Times)
EditorialIn a photo provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech, a false color image taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of the Jezero Crater on Mars, the planned destination of the Mars 2020 rover. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via The New York Times)