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i tried looking for colored textures of mars' moons but i am only finding greyscale textures

did anyone else find colored textures for the moons?

Hi.
There are a lot of color images of Mars moons, in color, Phobos in a light magenta-pink color, and Deimos a bit yellowish.
I think you should modify your texture color from grey to something close to the real ones.

Goofy wrote:There are a lot of color images of Mars moons, in color, Phobos in a light magenta-pink color, and Deimos a bit yellowish.

i want maps derived from https://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/phobos_deimos.jpg but idk how to reproject non spherical things into workable textures...

I believe Selden can help you on projection difficulties, so I suggest you to contact him...
Goofy

here are 4k textures
bigger ones i would have to upload to my G-drive

John Van Vliet wrote:here are 4k textures

the 2nd one (phobos) is missing some grey around the big crater exactly on the equator
but i can do that my self...

In reality the moons of Mars are actually gray in color, not brown.

fyr02 wrote:In reality the moons of Mars are actually gray in color, not brown.

miranda showed up grey (without blue hue) but if the mars moons are grey... how come they showed up brown/tan?

Hex colors of martian moons using my TCT:
Phobos #4c4b48 (spectrum source)
Deimos #4c4946 (source 1, source 2)

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And it looks like I correctly guessed the color of Phobos two years ago
https://www.deviantart.com/askaniy/art/Phobos-Texture-Map-784146561

It is strange that the myth about red moons of Mars still exists. Both celestial bodies are gray, as has been said many times.

what even caused the marshan moon images to come out red ?

am i just being ecnored?