Die ersten Bilder vom Mars mussten von Hand gezeichnet werden, da ungeduldige Wissenschaftler nicht darauf warten konnten, dass der Datenübersetzer die Bilder verarbeitete.

Too impatient to wait for the data translator, NASA’s JPL team assigned colours to numbers and hand-coloured a makeshift picture.

[https://science.nasa.gov/resource/first-tv-image-of-mars-hand-colored/](https://science.nasa.gov/resource/first-tv-image-of-mars-hand-colored/)

I know it’s subjective, but this feels more beautiful and spectacular than the black and white “real” image, both because of it’s colorful, more artistic styling, but also because of the human handwork that can visibly be seen in the result. Truly the first human-made image from another world.

C’mon, can’t tell me none of the artists threw in a few joke slides.

It might not have been the straight processing power needed. This seems to be very doable even on primitive computers. The delay they probably didn’t want to wait for was *waiting their turn* to use the computer for this.

Imagine, for the sake of argument it would have taken just seconds, even near instantaneously – but if it’s low priority you might have waited weeks in the queue just to get your few seconds on the computer.

I think Scott Manley may have done a YT video on this. Nice further info for those interested.